The Feeling Better Macrobiotic Guarantee by Sheldon and Ginat Rice

Macrobiotics is a wonderful way of life, discipline of appreciation and system of healing.  At its onset, a macrobiotic practice may seem challenging, like starting a new career or learning a language.  There is so much to understand and do, sometimes interwoven with fear when illness is involved.  There is no assurance of recovery.

Amasake Fritters by Susan Marque

Amasake is a sweet fermented grain dish that can be a pudding, a drink like a milkshake or warm like hot chocolate.  The version in most health food stores is made from sweet rice. Sweet rice is sweet but also contains gluten.  Try short grain brown rice or millet for a nice gluten free amasake.  Here is just one of many ways to enjoy it.

TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Wondering how much of a diet-buster that banana cream pie on your plate is? Some Japanese have a novel way to find out: Photograph it with your cell phone and send the image to an expert.

With cell phones ubiquitous in Japan and rising concern over expanding waistlines, health care providers have put two and two together to allow the calorie-conscious to send photos of their meals to nutritionists for analysis and recommendations.

Public health insurance offices in Osaka p...
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The New Navajos

By Natalie Buckley Rowland From Macrobiotics Today, March/April 2001

It has been exactly a year since my arrival in Farmington , New Mexico , and two years since the publishing of my cookbook, Valley of Maize by the George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation. I have gained one golden retriever, two Navajo kittens, and several dramatic dietary, spiritual, physical, emotional, and ideological changes. However, I lost one of my major cats to natu...
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Cranberry Walnut Cornbread by Natalie Buckley Rowland

Though this recipe is not contained in Natalie's first cookbook, Valley of the Maize, which we sell here. please take a look at it as it is filled with so many wonderful cornbread recipes. I recently made Natalie's Fancy Corn Bread recipe and it was fantastic!

Pumpkin Flax Bread of the Three Sisters by Natalie Buckley Rowland

The Three Sisters are corn, beans, and squash, of which the recipe contains all three.

Though this recipe is not contained in Natalie's first cookbook, Valley of the Maize, which we sell here. please take a look at it as it is filled with so many wonderful cornbread recipes which do not use baking powder. I recently made Natalie's Fancy Corn Bread recipe and it was fantastic!

This recipe comes from Valley of the Maize by Natalie Buckley Rowland which we sell here. I made this cornbread the other evening and it was truly fantastic in how it tasted.