Re: Cooking Oils
Gloria,
Do you want to use tropical food products?
Go live in a tropical paradise where it is hot all the time.
Otherwise, use food products that are more in balance with the climate you are living in.
Do you eat bananas, pineapple, mango, papaya, or honey?
If so, what is the yang that attracts one to that?
Meat, excess salt, excess heat (in climate and diet) and/or dairy foods!
What's in your diet that is attracting you to coconut oil?
What's your diet consist of, anyway?
While it is not necessary for everyone to be the exactly the same like robots, it is useful for members of the same community to have similar diets and ways of thinking.
Though sesame oil and toasted sesame oil are perhaps the best oils for most macrobiotic cooking, sometimes we use other oils such as extra virgin olive oil for sauiteeing, corn oil for baking, or safflower oil for deep frying, but we avoid coconut oil for the reasons that Nancy wrote (like saturated fat!).
Read her reasons again.
For a balanced (temperate climate) macrobiotic diet, they make sense.
Do you understand?
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine
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