Healthy and Yummy Food Provided at “Golden Temple Conscious Cookeries”
Delicious, healthy food eaten in a cozy communal setting was such a powerful force in 3HO that the first businesses that blossomed with the growth of ashram communities around the world were restaurants. Many hundreds of people did their first karma yoga in “Golden Temple” or “Nanak’s” or “Hanuman” Conscious Cookeries which sprang up across the globe. Thousands of people were introduced to the joys of the 3HO lifestyle with their first bowl of mung beans and rice or their first cup of Yogi Tea. The young 3HO community members passionately cooked and served delicious vegetarian meals to countless souls. There were very few vegetarian restaurants in those days and for many, this was an introduction to vegetarianism.
In Santa Fe, New Mexico, in September 1970, the Ashram took over The Blue Lady Cafe on Old Santa Fe Trail, owned by Robert Boissier, and named it Nanak’s Conscious Cookery. In 1972, the restaurant moved to downtown Santa Fe on Don Gasper Avenue and it became The Golden Temple Restaurant.
In Denver, Colorado, the Hanuman’s Conscious Cookery opened in early 1971.
Sardar Singh from Oslo Norway shared this, about the Golden Temple restaurants of the 1970s, in the 1988 edition of the Beads of Truth, a 3HO Foundation publication.
“To fully convey the impressions that are deepest within me of the early years in Europe, I wish I could show moving pictures and video glimpses of expressions and situations: like Tantric in Holland, the Siri Singh Sahib’s eyes as he counselled, welcoming smiles in Hamburg, a Golden Temple Restaurant kitchen scene.
…The first Golden Temple was in Amsterdam. The second in London, then Hamburg, then another in Amsterdam, and then Copenhagen.” Read more…
Picture from a benefit event for the 3HO drug program hosted at the Golden Temple Restaurant in Santa Fe in 1975
Picture from a benefit event for the 3HO drug program hosted at the Golden Temple Restaurant in Santa Fe in 1975
Golden Temple Restaurant in 1981
