This book is dedicated to all the masters and teachers that gave me inspiration to cook. Moving to a vegan diet was a gigantic step for me. Coming from a tradition of eating meat for most of my life, then moving into yoga ashrams where I lived for almost 3 years, I had to turn vegetarian. Then from the influence of teachers, I moved into vegan diet at the yoga ashram. Once the yoga ashram shut down, I moved with a zen master who showed me zen diet. Only vegan, no onions and garlic, and 2 gallons of hot tea per day. The first credit goes to my mother, Naheed Ahmed. She is the most patient and spiritual woman I have ever known. She prays 5 hours a day for me, ever since my birth. My father died when I was 1 year old. She took care of us. She didn't cook much, because the time of cooking she spend with us. She really wanted the best for her children, never remarried. We moved to a couple of different towns since my father's death. I was born in Rawalpindi, which is a sister town to Islamabad, Pakistan. With my father, we moved to Lahore where he passed away. We then moved to Hyderabad, where my grandfather lived. Upon his death, my mother finished her law school. She became very important in Lions Club and social working. She made a name for herself there. She wanted to give a lot to the community. We then moved to Karachi. As I was getting older, I didn't want to stay at home. The reason being my two sisters and mother fought all the time. I started getting into trouble. When I was 17, my mother sent me to America to make a name for myself. It was really hard for her. However, she sacrificed. I came to America with two suitcases only. The next most important teacher for me was Brahmananda, who build the two yoga ashrams, one in San Francisco, Yoga Society of San Francisco and the second in New York, Yoga Society of New York. He is an enlightened master. A doctor, brain and heart surgeon who turned into a yogi. He moved from India to America, to enlighten everyone, teaching the most advanced principles of yoga. He passed away in 1993. When I turned 27, I was having lots of my own issues, having broken up from some relationships, I was guided to Yoga Society of San Francisco, in 2000. I learned very deep yoga practices there, especially chakra healing. I opened up all my chakras, with the blessings of the guru. I healed many people during the course of time and became one of the experts. In 2011, when I was having issues with relationships again, I left home and moved into Yoga Society of San Francisco. I opened up my chakras again, this time the feminine side. The third and forth teachers I want to recognize is Sivananda and Vishnudevananda. Sivananda wrote over 300 books, dedicated to yoga in every aspect. There hasn't been anyone that has covered the jnana yoga, which the theory aspect of yoga than Sivananda. His student, Vishnudevananda, by the blessings of the guru, opened up his kundalini at the age of 20 and moved to America shortly after from India. He taught over at least 35000 yoga teachers. These teachers taught yoga to millions in America. Vishnudevananda created many yoga ashrams worldwide, but named them after Sivananda. In 2012, when I was done practicing chakra and kundalini yoga at Brahmananda ashram, I moved to live in Sivananda Yoga Ashram in San Francisco. I lived there for exactly 2 years, wrote 2 advanced books on yoga, and 1 on startups. The fifth teacher I want to recognize is Amma. Amma is the hugging saint from India. She was blessed by my guru, Brahmananda in 1987. She build her first ashram the same year. While I was living in Sivananda ashram in 2014, I visited her. I became disciple or student of a living master. The touch of mother is very important, especially one of the most spiritual woman in the world. She has enlightened millions already. When I received a mantra from her, her disciples told me that all her blessings and protection will always be on you. The sixth teacher I would like to recognize is Zen Master, Master Wang. When the Sivananda Yoga Ashram was shutting down in 2014, I had intuition at Harbin Hot Springs to go move in with him. I had met Master Wang years before, when I was living at Brahmananda Yoga Ashram in 2012. I then called Master Wang and moved in with him. I was already a vegan, coming from Sivananda Yoga Ashram. Master Wang really appreciated that. He then taught me water based diet and his tea mastery of hydration. It is an honor to be living with a living zen master, a real buddha incarnation, hidden in the most violent city of Oakland, in the most violent neighborhood. But a real master couldn't be found anywhere else. Enlightening many poor people all over his neighborhood, just because of his presence. I took master wang to Harbin Hot Springs, where her served tea to over 200 people, fed them his blessed vegan food. I had the intuition there that Harbin Hot Springs water is as old as when the dinosaurs ruled the earth. You brought a living water zen master there. It was an honor. Master Wang taught me many things, and he put his soul in me. He said he only wants to work with golden students. I wrote my forth book in his house. After living with him for six months, I moved out and got my own place. I wrote 3 books in 2015, on venture capitalists, founders and social. In that process, I met another teacher, Snoop Dogg on twitter. The seventh dedication goes to him. Snoop Dogg and I became very close. I then also met P Diddy on Twitter. It was interesting to have two new living masters. The eighth dedication goes to P Diddy. We worked with each other, although on Twitter, looking at each other's profiles every day and communication. When I was working with Snoop Dogg, I ran into Hillary Clinton, who Snoop Dogg loved. With the same twitter communication mechanism, I became very close to Hillary Clinton. The ninth dedication goes to her. She is my mother and our goal from that point on became to get her elected, as the first female President of United States of America. With lots of continuous support from Hillary Clinton, Snoop Dogg and P Diddy, working together every day since 2015, in 2016 I wrote my eighth book, helping entrepreneurs across the world. The Cook Book, this book is the ninth book, containing zen diet, being written in 2016.