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The Macrobiotic Brown Rice Cookbook

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This book is great! The miso soup recipe is wonderful, and I'm hooked on the Risi i Bisi!!! It was recommended to me by a friend who modified her diet after being diagnosed with cancer. Being vegetarian, I explored it myself and now it's a staple in my kitchen. Recipes are relatively easy and very tasty.

This book is simple to read and understand. The recipies are easy to follow. This is a great little book to have handy in your kitchen. The foundation of a macrobiotic diet is well cooked brown rice. This book will give you ideas, and will help to bring your brown rice cooking to perfection.

I'm a vegetarian, not macrobiotic, so perhaps the other person's criticism was valid, but I love this book. There are some very simple but delicious dishes in this book. This is the one I turn to when I don't want to cook something too complicated, but I want somthing healthy and delicious. The soup recipes are some of my favorites from any book, especially the one with corn (add shredded carrot for color, yum). And I also like the writing, not just the recipes.

(The resaon I am looking at the book here at all is because I want to get a copy for a friend of mine as a present.)

This little book has a lot of charisma. It is useful and attractive. I have ordered it for several friends. There is just enough information about macrobiotics to be inspiring, yet by no means too much, so as not to overwhelm a person not bent on studying the subject. Even a friend with wide knowledge of cooking told me she learned a few things from the book, yet the style is down to earth. The recipes are simple and easy to use, written in a style that is exact but not intimidating at all.

If your a vegetarain this book is good, But as far as macrobiotic?..........no way!!! Recipes nearly all contain GARLIC, & other ingredients such as coconut milk........I was pushed hard to find a macrobiotic recipe that was not too YIN...... I actually had an old edition of this book. Back then, the recipes were filled with spices too.

I first got this cook book almost a decade ago, and then I lost it when I was traveling recently. I missed it so much, so I bought a second copy. Some great recipes in there. I especially liked some of the salad recipes.