AVELINE KUSHI'S COMPLETE GUIDE TO Macrobiotic FOR HEALTH, HARMONY AND PEACE BY AVELINE KUSHI WITH ALEX JACK MACROBIOTICS . . . "Macrobiotics does not require any change in your religion, way of thinking, or personal lifestyle. It requires only that you eat in harmony with your environment. By eating well, you will create order and balance in your daily life. Your peaceful spirit will extend to your family and community and eventually influence the whole world. Once you have experienced the true energy of food and learned how to control your health, behavior, and thoughts through cooking, you can never return to old unconscious and sensorial ways of eating. After preparing balanced whole foods meals, your physical condition will improve. Your thinking will become clear and focused. Your vision of the future will grow bright and cheerful. Careful cooking is the key to maintaining harmony with the surrounding natural world." —Aveline Kushi . . . ONE STEP FURTHER In addition to teaching you how to properly cook brown rice and other traditional macrobiotic foods, Aveline Kushi takes the art of organic, natural foods cooking one step further. She adapts many taste-tempting dishes from other cuisines to her high macrobiotic standards, making food substitutions and preparation changes when necessary. The results are completely new, delicious, satisfying recipes presented together for the first time in a macrobiotic cookbook, dishes from Latin America, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, as well as North America and the Far East, that you are sure to enjoy. [...]... way, and for the last thirty-five years this compass has guided my life Under various names and forms, the philosophy of yin and yang is found in the Bible, the Upanishads, the Buddhist sutras, and other scriptures and classics To balance yin and yang, we need to learn how to create, transform, and modify energy Our body, our food, and our environment are changing forms and patterns of energy Understanding... change and applying it to all aspects of life to maximize our health and happiness is the goal of macrobiotics In this way we become infinitely flexible We are able to respond to any changing circumstances and cheerfully embrace life in all its manifestations Energy takes many forms, and yin and yang are always found together and turning into one another Night changes into day, winter changes into spring,... encouragement, and handling manuscript queries during a trip I made to Japan for several months; Mayumi Nishimura for furnishing the fish recipes and trying out all the dressings, sauces, and From Alex • xv dips; Richard Bourden for furnishing the basic sourdough bread recipes and Shigeko Ando for trying them out; Edward and Wendy Esko, senior counseling and cooking instructors at the Kushi Institute and authors... in harmony with your environment By eating well, you will create order and balance in your daily life Your peaceful spirit will extend to your family and community and eventually influence the whole world Once you have experienced the true energy of food and learned how to control your health, behavior, and thoughts through cooking and eating, you will never be able to return to the old unconscious and. .. judge temperature and time intuitively, with your own common sense You will know instinctively what foods to select for the day, how to cut and prepare them, which foods combine well with others, how long to cook each dish, how much seasoning to add and when to add it, how to adjust for the special needs of each family member or guest, and how to serve the meal in the most beautiful and appealing manner... grandmothers and mothers used to feel their children's foreheads for a sign of their day -to- day condition And whenever the children went out, the mothers would admonish them to keep their feet and toes warm So the philosophy is the same as in the Far East BALANCING YIN AND YANG Health is balance, the harmony of yin and yang Health is the balance between our inner and outer environment, between mental and physical... uted over the years to my own understanding and self-development as well as to many recipes in this book For someone like me who didn't enjoy being in the kitchen, these people have made it very easy and worthwhile I would especially like to express my gratitude to George and Lima Ohsawa, who have inspired and guided me, and to their friend Mr Shimizu Oritaro, who helped me come to the United States... result of this experience, my understanding of whole foods broadened, and I began to see that food and agriculture are the keys to transforming society at all levels, from the personal to the social, from the family to the global In the mid-1970s, my interest in natural foods led me to macrobiotics For the last decade I have studied with Michio and Aveline Kushi and worked with them on a variety of... this book together Without him it would never have been realized My ability to express myself in English is limited, and he has understood my innermost spirit and provided beautiful, warmhearted explanations It is my hope that this book will help you to create more balanced and peaceful meals Health and energy are precious gifts Please share your insight and understanding with others, and together let... insight, joy and happiness flooded my soul From that time on, I understood yin and yang, the laws of beauty and truth, from the inside Shortly afterward, George Ohsawa arranged for me to get a boat ticket to San Francisco and a bus ticket to New York, from where I hoped eventually to go to a World Government conference in Europe I felt a bit like Lafcadio Hearn, whose niece I had come to know in college, . AVELINE KUSHI'S COMPLETE GUIDE TO Macrobiotic FOR HEALTH, HARMONY AND PEACE BY AVELINE KUSHI WITH ALEX JACK MACROBIOTICS . . . "Macrobiotics does not require. photograph © 1985 by Margaret Landsman Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kushi, Aveline. Aveline Kushi's Complete guide to macrobiotic cooking for health, harmony, and. am very grateful to Aveline and Alex for producing a book so full of love, care, and grace. I sincerely hope that it will become a daily guide and companion for individuals and families on every