Hi Cath,
I loved Jessica Porter's book. I had been thinking about altering my diet to a macrobiotic system for some time, but it seemed so daunting, particualrly since I live in an area with no organic grocery stores and most of the staple ingredients need to be purchased on line. But Porter's apporach made it seem so accessible. Especially her emphasis on starting gradually by incorporating a whole grain meal a day, and whole grains are much easier to find (and shipped in more decent and less expensive ways) than produce or anything else.
I feel horrible saying this, beucase I know he is more or less the patron of macrobiotics, but the work I have read by Kushi has been so dry and focuses so much on "fixing what is broke," that if I started with one of his books that if I started with him, I don't think macrobiotics would have seemed the least bit accessible to me. I purchased his Macrobiotic Way after Porter's book, and read it in its entirety after I finished Porter's book, but it wasn't until after reading Turner's book and some of Pirello, that I was able to go back to the Macrobiotic Way and make more sense of it. I also purchased Kushi's remedy book published, but I find his diet recommendations too vague to be of much help or hold my attention.
