Changing Seasons Macrobiotic Cookbook
by Aveline Kushi, Wendy Esko
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Author: Aveline Kushi, Wendy EskoEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-07-28
ISBN: 1583331646
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Avery Trade
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Book Review: #1 Favorite Cookbook
Summary: 5 Stars
I own ~50 cookbooks, and this is my #1 favorite.
The book emphasizes cooking fresh, seasonal produce absolutely as simply as possible. It might just be the ultimate minimalist cookbook. Some recipes are as simple as: "Chop kale, boil for 3 minutes." But ALL of these simple recipes are placed in the context of a meal, and all meals are placed in the context of a day in the week of a season of macrobiotic cooking. So you are not just learning to boil kale for 3 minutes, you are learning where to place the kale-boiling in your daily routine.
Yes, I agree the book would benefit from a few more seafood recipes. But at least it has some, which is more than many other macrobiotic cookbooks (at least the ones in English.) And the recipes include seafood as an easy side product (eg "you could add shrimp to this soup alongside the cabbage"), which is an authentic place for seafood in traditional macrobiotic cuisine.
I would also agree that strict macrobiotics is probably not the ideal dietary regime according to modern dietary science (no olive oil? no avocados? no spinach? _a lot_ of brown rice?) However, a few small changes to the menus (not necessarily to any of the recipes) and i think the book fits in with modern dietary recommendations perfectly.
Finally, the book also has an interesting set of suggestions for daily living: "walk barefoot on grass, or sand", "maintain active correspondence", and "chew each bite 50 times." Take them as interesting suggestions or leave them as crank science, but i think they make some sense.
Overall, the best cookbook i've found, and probably the first i will actually cook from cover to cover.
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