When I moved to Roy Steevensz's macrobiotic center in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, I was put to work making takuan (rice bran pickles) which are made by taking fresh large whole daikon roots that have their leaves still attached, rinsing them in cool pure water, separating the leaves in a clump from the top of the daikon root with a sharp knife (the clumped leaves are then hung on a tight clothesline in the shade, outside for a number of days until they become yellow-brown and brittle, and then...

Bruce Paine

Hi,

A friend of mine and her husband (both long-time macrobiotic practitioners) adopted a young girl many years ago who turned out to have some mental and emotional deficiencies and raised this girl into adulthood.

Living with this young woman has been like riding a roller coaster and not long after her hormones kicked, in did she start getting intimate with boys and soon after, she got pregnant (while still in high school!)

So my friend and her husband...

Bruce Paine

Hi,

Recently, I took a trip to South Jersey to visit a friend who is a real macrobiotic dynamo (practices shiatsu and pranic healing, cooks macrobiotic foods for people in her home, does macrobiotic counseling, and still has time to create beautiful and inspirational art) so that I could get recharged (do some very had work moving very heavy oak logs by hand and wheelbarrow across her property, carry heavy bronze sculpted statues onto a truck out to a outdoor display area, back onto...

Bruce Paine

Hi,

Last week, as I was traveling north from South Jersey, I stooped by a favorite restaurant for a meal and made the acquaintance of a lady who related a song that she heard Lino Stanchich sing, once when she was down in Asheville:

Sung to the tune of "Row row row your boat, merrily down the stream...":

"Chew chew chew your food

gently through the meal....

The more you chew

the less you'll eat....

Bruce Paine