Amateur cooks create vegetarian meals BY LINDSAY GOLDWERT
The Dalai Lama paid a visit to a TV cooking show in Australia.
Guess who's coming to dinner? For a group of amateur chefs competing for prize money on a cooking show, the mystery guest was none other than the Dalai Lama.
The competitors on the television show "MasterChef Australia" were stunned when they were asked to prepare a vegetarian meal for the spiritual leader of Tibet.
The aspiring cooks had a bit of guidance from celebrity chef Kylie Kwong, a practicing Buddhist, who coached the competitors on the Dalai Lama's favorite foods, which include coriander, mushrooms, cheese and tofu.
The Dalai Lama sampled Japanese noodle consommé, a Sri Lankan vegetarian curry with roti, a goat cheese tortellini, steamed coconut pudding with mangosteen and a coconut crème anglaise sauce.
Luckily, possibly, for the contestants, his Holiness kept his opinions about the food to himself. "As a Buddhist monk, I have no right to prefer this food to that food," he said. "Anything I am offered, I must accept."
The exiled leader proved to be talented at calming the most hysterical chef. When one of the competitors cried while presenting her dish due to "disaster" in the kitchen, the Dalai Lama took her hand and bowed, according to the Independent. The Dalai Lama was in Australia after a whirlwind tour in the U.S., where he spoke with President Obama
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