The Self-Healing Cookbook: Whole Foods To Balance Body, Mind and Moods
by Kristina Turner
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Author: Kristina TurnerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-02
ISBN: 0945668155
Number of pages: 209
Publisher: Earthtones Pr
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Book Review: Learn about helping yourself and family through macrobiotics
Summary: 4 Stars
The first macrobiotic cook book I read was by Kushi, and I find Kristina Turner's book far more approachable and accessible, than any thing by Kushi. She uses many recipes whose ingredients can be found any where, even out in the country far from thriving organic communites. I heard of her from Jessica Porter's "Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics."
She organizes information about food and its relationship to moods and physical ailments in neat, easy to remember and easy to read tables. Her introduction to sea weed, is very helpful, as some cook books assume every person understands the difference between wakame, nori, and kombu, among others - so many macro-ccokbooks start throwing ingredients at you that are unfamiliar and you have no idea how to identify them or even why to try them. I liek the fact too that she gives many varieties for miso soup. She also includes a chapter on deserts, so people don't feel deprived, and that there are goodies for the kids.
There are many exercises introduced in the cook book (in fact this is more of a work book than a typical cook book) that are deisigned to help you realize the connection between food and your body, and to help you learn how to choose what is best for you, based on learning how what feels right and why. These exercises can be done with children, if you are switching a family's diet or, as Turner recommends, the book can be done with a friend to make it more fun. Not partner is require though.
Learning macrobiotics should be as much as learning about you as learning about food. Macrobiotics is the art of balancing, and to a degree every one is an individual, and diets should not be a carbon copy of each other because individuals differ too. Turner recognizes this.
Drawbacks for the books were its unprofessional style. It looks like it was done on a typewriter. I also thought that the recipes introduced by Christina Pirello were more family-friendly (meaning easier to cook and less foreign looking) and offered a greater variety than Turner's selections.
Summary of The Self-Healing Cookbook: Whole Foods To Balance Body, Mind and Moods
Book annotation not available for this title.Title: The Self-Healing Cookbook
Author: Turner, Kristina
Publisher: Earthtones Pr
Publication Date: 2002/02/01
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Binding Type: PAPERBACK
Library of Congress: bl2006028348
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