Hello Everyone,
I am new to this site. I just purchased Jessica Porter's Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobuiotics yesterday and almost finished it. It is a good book but I wish it had more recipes.
I am familair with and attracted by the philosophy of macrobiotics. I have been pracitcing yoga pretty regularly during the last ten years, and met many of its enthusiasts. During the last two years I have become a more hard core yogat enthusiast, and eating has been more important to me; rather monitoring what I eat as I am trying more every day to pursue a more holisitically healthy life style.
It is hard to find macrobiotic books that have recipes, and I loved Porter's books because not only did it have easy to find recipes, but those recipes that used ingredients that I could find in rural NC (too bad I'm not near Asheville, or I might have options).
I don't understand why so many macrbiotic "cook" books are largely philosophy tomes. I would not buy recipe books for a life style, if I did not already know at least a little about it.
A question I have been dying to ask to some one experience with macrobiotics, and other people who follow the life style, is did you actually liek all the food when you were starting the eating system (I hate using the word diet, because it sounds like a fad).
I like bean products like tofu and hummous, but I do not like beans or cabbage, and so many recipes seem to particualrly have beans. I know that food should be more about taste, but I rally hope that my taste buds change or my relationship towards food's taste changes so that I have more varieties open to me. Does any one have experience of their preferences changing while eating macrobiotic over a period of time?
Also, and this is not at all related to this category, but why is there only Bush logo on the smile page...Many thanks. Kristin