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"The cookbook is a collection of recipes gathered by Julie Thayer (with help from Lakshmi Guha) through her extensive travels with U.G. It was compiled in 2002 when U.G. was 84. He seemed amused by its appearance on the scene.!" Excerpt from the UG Cookbook: U.G. AND FOOD U.G. Krishnamurti is 84 years old and in perfect health. He travels twice around the world every year, by himself, carrying his portable “kitchen” and a tiny suitcase. Wherever he is, he cooks his own meals, and often cooks for his friends. Everything he makes is delicious, but he states emphatically that we eat too much, and we are obsessed with natural foods and concepts of nutrition. The pleasure movement, whether it is for food or love or work or the search for God - all cultural input, our conditioning - is there to keep the status quo in place. We need variety to amuse ourselves, to keep the “I” (that we think we are) intact, to keep our identity going. In nature there is no such need, says U.G. Animals do not need a variety of food. A variety of food is like a variety of girls. U.G. needs neither. U.G. is in the “natural state.” He has tremendous energy and vitality, he can travel for days on end, he can talk for 24 hours straight with hardly a break— and yet he eats minimally. When a reporter once exclaimed, “U.G. you’re so incredibly good-looking and youthful!” he explained, laughing, “That’s because I don’t eat health food, I don’t take vitamins, and I don’t exercise!”
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U.G. AND FOOD U .G. Krishnamurti is 84 years old and in perfect health. He travels twice around the world every year, by himself, carrying his portable “kitchen” and a tiny suitcase. Wherever he is, he cooks his own meals, and often cooks for his friends. Everything he makes is delicious, but he states emphatically that we eat too much, and we are obsessed with natural foods and concepts of nutrition. The pleasure movement, whether it is for food or love or work or the search for God - all cultural input, our conditioning - is there to keep the status quo in place. We need variety to amuse ourselves, to keep the “I” (that we think we are) intact, to keep our identity going. In nature there is no such need, says U.G. Animals do not need a variety of food. A variety of food is like a variety of girls. U.G. needs neither. It is not a theory with him, but something that operates in his life. The approach is the following: The human body is a highly intelligent operating system which, when left alone and not plagued by concepts and demands of the “squatter” (the conscious mind that terrorizes the body with its ideas and imagined needs), can feed itself, heal itself, and reproduce itself with astonishing efficiency and precision. We do not need to concern ourselves with nutrition and vitamins and health foods, says U.G. To survive in a healthy fashion the body needs basic thermal units (BTUs). No more, no less. The body can handle whatever is “put in there” and turn it into the energy it needs to function. The key to health is eating very little, and allowing the body to dictate its own needs. “I’m not recommending this diet to you,” says U.G. But it works for him and we see the results. U.G. is in the “natural state.” He has tremendous energy and vitality, he can travel for days on end, he can talk for 24 hours straight with hardly a break and yet he eats minimally. When a reporter once exclaimed, “U.G. you’re so incredibly good-looking and youthful!” he explained, laughing, “That’s because I don’t eat health food, I don’t take vitamins, and I don’t exercise!” U.G. has a unique approach to nutrition and health. U.G.’s natural state came about at the age of 49 when an explosion took place in him, an explosion that left him functioning in this unusual way, devoid of thoughts and