This documentary profiles Zen Master Edward Espe Brown and shows the art of Zen and cooking. Espe Brown first became interested in baking as an 11-year kid when he realized the startling difference between mass-produced supermarket bread and the fresh homemade stuff. When he asked his mother to teach him how to bake, however, she said "No, yeast makes me nervous."
Brown became the head cook at the Tassajara Mountain Centre in California when he was in his early 20s, and has been practicing the art of Zen Buddhism and cooking for more than 40 years. As a chef, he is typically short-tempered and exacting, but as a Buddhist master he is exactly the opposite. Director Dörrie (Men, Naked) sets her camera on Espe Brown as he travels from the Scheibbs Buddhist Centre in Austria to Tassajara, offering cooking seminars based upon the principles established 800 years ago by Master Eihei Dogen Zenji, the founder of the Japanese Soto-Zen school. Master Dogen wrote about the necessity of treating food as if it was as valuable as your eyesight. From washing rice, to preparing vegetables, every action could be a path to Zen. Or as the master said, "When you're washing the rice, wash the rice." A charming taskmaster who regularly punctures his holiness with moments of self-deprecation and humour, Espe Brown's observations on modern culture, cooking and human foibles are often as acerbic and hilarious as they are profound.                                                                                                                                   

 Questions 

1.What did his mother say, when Brown says:’’could you teach  me bread to make’’?  

A)Yes, Of  course                                                                                                                                                                                       B)Yes,Gladly                     

C)Yes, Yeast makes me happy.                                                                                                                                                            D)No, Yeast makes me nervous.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2.What is the name of Brown’s Book?

A)Cooking

B)Breadmaking

C)The Tassajara Bread Book

D)Zen Mind

3.What is the name aunt Alice’s homemade bread?

A)Foamy white bread

B)Fabulously delicious

C)Fabulous

D)White bread

4.What is the name of Brown’s master?

A)Hui Neng

B)Bodhidharma

C)Jusan Kainei

D)Shunryu Suzuki

Lazarillo of Tormes

Lazarillo of Tormes

The book Lazarillo of Tormes (1554) is anonymous. It consists of a prologue and seven chapters. It is written in the form of a letter, which Lazaro addresses Your Mercy, telling about his life before he answers his question ‘why he allows his wife to be San Salvador archpriest’s lover’.
Lazaro was born near the River Tormes, hence his name. His father stole some flour ; he was convicted and sent to war, where he died. Then his mother entrusted  him to a blind man, his first master. Master and servant get to the bull of the Roman bridge in Salamanca. The blind tells him to get closer so that he can hear a great noise inside. When the child approaches his ear to the fountain, the blind hits Lazaro’s head against the statue and tells him: “The blind’s servant must know more than the devil”. With this master, Lazaro learnt many things,  but he also starved and there are several chapters related to food.
In Maqueda, he finds a priest, his second master, who had nothing in the kitchen pantry except a few onions. All that Lazaro had was just an onion every four days, meanwhile his master ate abundantly.
His third master was a squire, who Lazaro gave the food that he found while begging.        
After that, Lazaro’s situation gets slightly better because he is not very hungry. He carries out several tasks and finally becomes the town crier in Toledo. There, San Salvador archpriest marries Lazaro to his servant. Before the wedding, Lazaro had been told that his hife had given birth three times. But Lazaro decided not to pay attention to the rumours, since now he has a better life.                                             
QUESTION 1: The autor of Lazarillo of Tormes is…,
1. Lázaro of Tormes
2. Anonymous
3. Miguel de Cervantes
4. Lope de Vega

QUESTION 2: Who does Lazaro address his letter?
1. A friend
2. All the readers
3. An unknown called Your Mercy
4. Nobody

QUESTION 3: Who is Lazaro’s third master?
1. A blind
2. An archpriest
3. A friar
4. A squire

QUESTION 4: Who is San Salvador archpriest’s lover?
1. Nobody
2. A neighbour of Lazaro’s
3. An archpriest’s servant who has married Lazaro
4. Lazaro’s mother