jennifer_t,
You say that Christina Pirello's "Cooking the Whole Foods Way" and cooking with tomatoes and green peppers is not macrobiotic.
Everthing is macrobiotic!!!
Macrobiotics is about balance and justice.
If you eat to much of one thing and not enough of it's complement, you willexperience some form of problem, maybe resulting in something others refer to as a sickness and that's the universe's way of being just.
You can be macrobiotic and eat meat, potatoes, white bread and sugar and the universe will show you (in time) why that is not a good balance.
All these useful and whole foods that you see in the macrobiotic cookbooks are both for healing and also living a simpler macriotic way, but if you like to live dangerously and learn many things you can eat the Standard American Diet in all it's variations, and you will recieve quite an education.
If you are trying to quickly heal yourself of some extreme condition, using "Cooking the Whole Foods Way" (
http://gomf.macrobiotic.net/Books_Cook.htm ) and foods like tomatoes and green peppers might be too much of an extreme for you, but please don't say that it's not macrobiotic.
It just might not be the form of macrobiotics that you need.
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine