Books are companions... teachers...muses...carriers of dreams, visions, and truth. For a quarter of a century, Shambhala Publications has been devoted to the magic, craft, and business of books.
This is a quote from their website but if you're not familiar with Shambhala, I'm inviting you to browse theire site and discover the most wonderful world.
the first
book they published in 1970
Edward Espe Brown's Tassajara Bread Book
and still the best selling
Quoting directly
from the website:
Hailed by reviewers as "the bible for bread baking," Edward
Espe Brown's Tassajara Bread Book was welcomed by a generation fed up
with "supermarket squish." The author, then head cook of a Zen
meditation retreat in California, offered a philosophy as wholesome as
his natural ingredients, encouraging readers to bake with love, awareness,
and a sense of the sacred dimension of everyday life.
Twenty-seven years later, the book is still Shambhala's top seller. In
second place is another overnight classic, Brown's Tassajara Cooking (1973),
a basic vegetarian cookbook that's fun to read, simple to use--and not
too ascetic: as Brown wrote, "No sugar, no enlightenment."
Read about how they teamed up with Random House and, more importantly, find some really wonderful books for all spiritually minded.
