Why have we cooked food for tens of thousands of years? Is it a mistake? Some health teachers certainly think so. They recommend mainly raw salads and fruits like our earlier ancestors who hadn’t learnt to use fire. Macrobiotic teachers submit that human progress came about because of cooking. Our ability to think, plan, calculate, Continue Reading »
Introdution Breaking your routine for a holiday vacation and maintaining balanced macrobiotic eating habits may seem like an oxymoron to the inexperienced practitioner. There are even people who define vacation as an escape from the kitchen. Actually there are several options for vacation meals – you can cook; you can visit friends and relatives, or Continue Reading »
SCENE I: Here I am, ready to go. I’ve got the food, the knife, the cutting board, and I’m ready to put it all together. Ah, macrobiotic cooking!?? But no! Not a pressure cooker! I couldn’t do that! I don’t know how! What if it explodes! I’m just not the type. I’ve heard too many Continue Reading »
Jane from London saw an ad saying; “We have over 250 macrobiotic products from Japan,” and she asked: Do we need to eat Japanese foods in order to eat a macrobiotic diet? Can people over-do Japanese products on macrobiotics? Isn’t macrobiotics about living from local foods and resources? Is this a case of profits over Continue Reading »
This is a simple menu that expresses light summer cooking. The dishes are pretty simple yet quite tasty, especially the grated carrot. From Cooking Classes at French Meadows, Summer, 2005 Brown Rice Salad: Pre-cooked Rice, Boiled Vegetables – mix together Dressing: Pumpkin Seeds, Umeboshi Paste, Broth – Grind together with a suribachi & pestle Grated Continue Reading »
Introduction Macrobiotics is a flexible system, and kitchen management is always possible even with challenging personal circumstances. There is always a way to handle perceived constraints; you just have to find it! The most important factor is to make a decision that you will succeed. Many newcomers to a macrobiotic lifestyle feel overwhelmed with the time they Continue Reading »
The Standard Macrobiotic Diet allows broad scope for personal creativity and enjoyment and is easy to adapt. In making the transition it is important to proceed in an orderly way and not to try to make the change overnight. Begin with pressure-cooked brown rice, miso soup and a few basic vegetable, bean and sea vegetable dishes while Continue Reading »
Here in Israel we questioned whether to grow our organic vegetables with animal fertilizer or non-animal compost material. Our land is tough, arid, hard earth that has not been tilled in literally thousands of years. Animal compost increases the productivity of the earth twenty fold. Yet we wonder if on a non-physical, vibratory level we are ingesting Continue Reading »