Traditional Japanese Shojin cuisine has come to the west with a restaurant opening in San Francisco.
Medicine, opened by William Petty two years ago, serves the Buddhist vegetarian cuisine which he describes as “a 500-year-old fad diet”.
Food must be prepared according to the rules of “fusessho”, or “thou shalt not kill”. Meat, seafood and dairy are not allowed and the mainstay ingredients are wheat, sesame, soya and rice as well as foraged wild foods.
Medicine’s executive chef is Ryuta Sakamoto of Kyoto restaurant Kappo Sakamoto.
The Daily Telegraph 4/8/07 page 55 (Magazine)
