Every single time that I cook, I quote The Hairy Bikers Asian adventure on Shojin Ryori. Meditation, what many people believe to be their key to escape the eternal suffering of reincarnation and their hall pass to enlightenment, has a bad image. People think meditation and enlightenment means to give up on the carnal desires and to be plain ol Jane. To eat simple... But the Japanese philosophy of Shojin Ryori is here to change our perception.