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Modern-Day Macrobiotics: Transform Your Diet and Feed Your Mind, Body and Spirit |  | Author: Simon Brown
Creator: Michio Kushi
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 25207
Media: Paperback
Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1556436432
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.264
EAN: 9781556436437
ASIN: 1556436432
Publication Date: April 10, 2007
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Product Description
A macrobiotic diet is beneficial not just physically, but spiritually and emotionally. Consisting of nuts, grains, vegetables, and other foods that are primarily whole, living, and unprocessed, it combines foods in a way that balances the body’s energies. Modern-Day Macrobiotics is both a cookbook and a practical guide to understanding and adopting a macrobiotic lifestyle. Along with menus and complete eating plans – including a one-day tone-up, three-day detox, ten-day regeneration diet, and four-month healing diet – it helps readers tailor a diet to their specific needs. Nearly 80 recipes cover every meal of the day, including dessert, and are tagged with icons indicating what types of energy the dish imparts. Colorful reference charts help readers find useful information at a glance. Health benefits; buying and storing ingredients; shortcuts and ten-minute meals; and ordering in restaurants are also covered. Luscious, full-color photographs capture the vibrant flavors of this healthy, delicious diet.
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 Perfect Way to Learn Macrobiotics, Especially If You Are An Ethnic Cook July 28, 2010
NPK (Culver City, CA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this book after my doctor recommended I look into a macrobiotic diet to help balance my hormones. I spent time at a macrobiotic restaurant that has a small collection of books that they sell first, browsing through the various options. This one really jumped out at me, for a couple of reasons:
1) I did not grow up cooking American or European food. I learned how to cook based on Indian cuisine, and that is the type of food my family and I eat at home most of the time. This book teaches you the principles of macrobiotic cooking in such a way that you can adopt it to whatever cuisine is most familiar and comfortable for you. It's made it easier for me to adapt to this way of eating, since the flavor of my food is satisfying, but the content of it is better for me.
2) I liked out way information about macrobiotics was presented. The layout of the information is very clean and easy to understand. Symbols for the different qualities of food make it easy to remember the principles, and it's much easier to absorb the material when you don't have to read textbook-like pages.
3) The pictures of the food are appealing. At the end of the day, it's a cookbook and I want to feel like the food I make is going to be appetizing and presentable.
4) Simon Brown's writing style is educational, warm and inviting. I think anyone who reads this book as an introduction to macrobiotics will get a good start, and will certainly learn enough to be dangerous.
I'm really happy I got it, and I'm even happier that I am using the principles and recipes in the book. My husband is eating this way with me, and he's not going hungry, and neither am I. In fact, I started feeling better after 3 days, which is so encouraging. I think this is a must read for anyone who wants to learn the principles of macrobiotics and wants a simple way to enhance their diet, especially if you don't want to feel pressured or overwhelmed or intimidated.
Enjoy!
P.S. The Noodles recipe is awesome!
very educational May 10, 2010
Roof Lady (Larkspur, CO)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read this book from cover to cover and found it to be very interesting and educational. I like the colorful pages and pictures; sounds very juvenile but kept my interest to learn more about this important subject. I would recommend this book but not the one it was coupled with by Amazon (Macrobiotics for Dummies -- a poorly edited book). As a beginner to macrobiotics, I would recommend this book to any other person looking into macrobiotics eating.
Awesome book. April 6, 2010
K. Hunter (Birmingham, MI)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Love this! I have given this to so many people as a gift. Great info and easy to read and use.
 Modern Macrobiotic ? November 30, 2009
J. Pfander (New Mexico)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I would say that this book is probably more enjoyable for someone who knows very little about Macrobiotic cooking. It is shallow on principles, but makes up for it with colorful pictures. Don't get me wrong; the book in worth the price, but I was looking for a more authentic read, and it fails in this area.
I am still in search of the first microbiotic cook book that was purchased in the sixties. I mistakenly threw it in a box headed for Goodwill, and have been trying to find an equal. Unfortunately the early standards of microbiotic cooking were much higher, as for health benefits I am sure that it is a toss up. I am not sure what is meant by modern?
I would say if you are new to microbiotic cooking that this is a good book, but if you really want to get into the core of macrobiotic cooking look elsewhere.
Modern-Day Joyous Macrobiotics February 6, 2009
loves2read (California)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've been through the wars with macrobiotics...from the endless brown rice only diet to the "raw" macrobiotics approach...for, off and on, forty years. This is the best that the macro-vision can testify to. A beautiful book, with engaging photographs, intelligent information, and, best of all, very rewarding recipes, all merging together to give the reader a healing and joyously appealing approach to a very diverse and often stringent lifestyle.
Macrobiotics can be so utterly daunting, so conservative, unbending, and foreign, that we often throw the baby out with the bath water. Brown's book is informative without being preaching; kind, and encouraging. Do try it out. It is enormously beneficial.
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