Coconut,
I can say nothing bad about
The Natural Gourmet Cookery School 48 West 21st Street
http://www.naturalgourmetschool.com/ started by
Annmarie Colbin, author of the cookbooks:
The Book of Whole Meals, and
The Natural Gourmet and the well known non-cookbook
Food and Healing and most recently:
Food and Our Bones: The Natural Way to Prevent Osteoporosis http://www.naturalgourmetschool.com/store.htm and it's satelite services described by Ray but if you are having trouble affording to eat at
Souen 28 E 13th St. and also, 210 6th Ave,
Angelica Kitchen 300 E 12th St., or
Mana 2444 Broadway, then you might have as much trouble affording the classes provided at this school as they are not cheap:
http://www.naturalgourmetschool.com/pubclasslist.htm .
Looking around in New York City
http://www.macrobiotics.sph.sc.edu/N...actitioner.htm you might find some macrobiotic teachers like
Susan Krieger susankriegerki@aol.com ,
Kezia Snyder (212) 929-2122, or
Jane Steinberg macrojane@hotmail.com giving cooking classes.
In the meantime, while you are deciding whom to study with, perhaps you could get a couple of the excellent cookbooks besides the ones mentioned above, for instance, the one beginner's book that everyone must have:
The Self-Healing Cookbook: A Macrobiotic Primer for Healing Body, Mind and Moods With Whole, Natural Foods by
Kristina Turner (Earthtones Press, 1987, 209 pp, ISBN: 0945668104)
and every long time macrobiotic's favorite:
Aveline Kushi's Complete Guide to Macrobiotic Cooking
by
Aveline Kushi with
Alex Jack (Warner Books, 1985, 414 pp, ISBN: 0446386340)
You can buy all the books mentioned at the cookery school and maybe have a bite next door at
BACHUE 36 W. 21st Street.
Once you have had some experience cooking macrobiotically, you might then want to meet others who have been doing the same at a monthly potluck organized by
Kezia Snyder in uptown Manhattan at
The Riverside Church of New York http://www.theriversidechurchny.org/ . Call the hotline 212-760-5938 for the next potluck announcement and instructions how to get to it.
You can also meet and eat with
Kezia and others at
NYC Earthsave events
http://nyc.earthsave.org/011002/nancy3.htm .
Please enjoy the adventure.
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine