The women of the temple were looking for foods to prepare, so she bought 20 sets of dishes used by monks under training and began teaching shojin-ryori about four years ago. The dishes ...

While original recipes for shojin ryori are lost to history, the vegetarian cuisine has changed over time, according to Ito. Saikan offers dishes that are slightly different from 30 years ago in ...

Sisters 69-year-old Akemi and 67-year-old Satsuki have embraced "shojin ryori," a kind of vegetarian ... cooking up a wide repertoire of delicious recipes, which they now share at cooking classes.

shojin ryori, composed strictly of vegetarian dishes and inspired by the diet of Buddhist monks; obanzai (Kyoto home-style cooking); and other popular Japanese fare such as ramen, sushi and udon.