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Just beyond our back doors, and often undiscovered, lies a remarkable landscape governed by the seasons and rhythms of nature… The Little Carrot takes you on a journey of discovery via the beak of a bird, an organic wheat patch, and the love of a small child, and delightfully illustrates how all things are connected. This enchanting book for children of all ages will leave you feeling nourished and deeply satisfied with life. ... Read more

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Enchanting
I loved this book. Even though I read it to my children, I also enjoyed the story and how we are all connected. It made me think about the bigger picture while my kids were loving the beautiful illustrations, exciting story and simple language. A must for everyone big and small. ... Read more

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Eat Me Now! is the essential healthy cookbook…all you need to know about eating a wholesome, delicious, and nutritious diet. Find out: How to keep your immune system strong;Ways to eat healthy foods in college; How organic, living foods increase your energy levels; How to heal the earth with the foods you eat; Natural and healthy ways to maintain weight; That macrobiotic cooking is easier than you think; Over 130 heavenly, sugar-free vegan recipes plus 12 healthy fish dishes! How to Go Green and Get Fit with Eat Me Now! ... Read more

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Total Food Fabulosity!
This book is a dream come true! I've never "read" a cookbook before, yet couldnt put this one down.. it exceeds all expectations...Even the most simple recipes such as steaming broccoli have a very special flare & all natural of course!
Bravo Melanie!

Great Book!
I found this book to be very informative.If you are just starting out with this way of eating, or just want to incorporate some of it in your diet, this is the book to read.
It's very easy reading and Melanie explains everything. I would highly recommend it to anyone.

Stunning!
As far as I am concerned, this book was a "life-changer". My eating habits, before I read this book, were quite absurd.After I finished the book, I realized that I didn't have to sacrifice flavor or comfort in order to eat well.These recipes, and I am a busy professional, are quick and easy, make me feel as If I am really a cook (which I am definitely not) and I feel healthier and more energetic.As an added bonus, when I go on dates now, or when a date sleeps over, I am able to impress her with my ordering and my cooking.Unfortunately this is generally not enough to overcome their initial impressions.

Seriously, the book is fun AND funny, can be read in an hour or two, and in the kitchen it is easy to follow.Just prop it up and fire away.

In addition, the author give just enough information about Macrobiotics and its history in this country as well as the Yin and Yang of it all and an explanation of why it all matters.

Very helpfully, the books contains easy shopping lists, excellent suggestions for children's and teenager's diets (even an away at college menu guide) and a short, but readable, treatise on the nature of energy and how we use it.

This is a great book for couch potatoes OR triathletes.Don't mean to go on, but it's just that being one way and then being another is usually, at least in my mind, a good thing.And this book just happened to be a catalyst for change as far as I was concerned.

Faux Macrobiotic
I've been macrobiotic for over 25 years, and this book belongs to a genus you might call faux macrobiotic.

Macrobiotics involves eating according to the energy, or chi, in foods--because it's the energy that sustains us, rather than the chemical constituents recognized by science. This typically means avoiding processed and refined foods (because they have no chi) and highly stimulating spices, which activate the organs in undesirable ways. However, most people are accustomed to eating exactly those foods as part of the standard American diet (SAD).

Although this book has "macrobiotic" in the subtitle and begins with a long section explaining macrobiotic principles, many of the recipes call for such ingredients as canned beans, frozen peas, fresh and canned fish (tuna), garlic, cumin, chili, cayenne, and pepper. With the possible occasional exception of fresh fish, you would never find these ingredients in a conventional macrobiotic diet.

The book is apparently geared toward younger people, college students, who are on the go and want a somewhat more healthful diet than the usual fast food. I suppose in that respect it's better than Peg Bracken's "I Hate to Cook Book," which was my introduction to the kitchen several decades ago and mostly involved opening cans. But many people who come to macrobiotics do so for health reasons, and if that's you, this book may not be as helpful as you expect. If you're in good health and don't overdo it with the ingredients I mentioned, you probably won't do yourself much harm, but don't delude yourself that you're following a macrobiotic diet.

The rationale for these books is that people are in a hurry, so using canned or frozen sometimes is okay, and that people want variety, so spices are okay. Occasionally, it *is* okay. But this book has many such recipes--they seem to be the rule rather than the exception. Authors of these books sometimes say that macrobiotics is evolving or that you don't want to be rigid, etc. Fine, but there's just no getting around the fact that if you have a serious health problem and hope to get rid of it (or want to minimize your chances of causing one in the future), a clean vegan diet is imperative. Also, part of macrobiotics involves uncorrupting our taste buds, so we can appreciate the taste of the food itself, without a lot of seasoning.

I bought this book sight unseen, thinking it had some new twists on the old macro ideas, and I find that it's basically a popularization. The title and long introductory section imply that it's a macrobiotic cookbook, and to some extent it is. But people often come to macrobiotics to get rid of health problems, and eating canned and frozen foods and fish and spices on a regular basis is not going to help you do it.

A Great Resource For Delicious Macrobiotic Recipes
This book is a valuable contribution to Macrobiotics.It eases the beginner in leaning how to eat according to its dietary principles without the intimidation one might expect when beginning a new healthy way of eating. This is also a great book to carry in your handbag when cooking away from home.It was difficult to keep the book on our shelf because everyone who saw it wanted to borrow it.A friend told me that it was the first time she was able to remain on the diet due to the simple yet very flavorfulrecipes and clear explanations Melanie describes in the book.Many of our friends have purchased the book.I refer to it as the Contemporary Macrobiotic book because Melanie presents ideas in a way that others have yet to do.We also noticed that her presentation of the diet is not as rigid as most Macrobiotic books. Another wonderful aspect about the book is that the ingredients for the recipes were much easier to find than with other books on the subject.You may want to order two book because it has a tendency to want to be borrowed. We are extremely pleased with our purchase.


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Chapters: Elizabeth Jennings, Diana Wynne Jones, Simon Rattle, Susan Sontag, Melanie Phillips, Tina Brown, Jenny Uglow, Polly Toynbee, Edwina Currie, Karen Armstrong, Mary Harron, Erika Cheetham, Mara Yamauchi, Mary Douglas, Cicely Saunders, Helen Fielding, U. A. Fanthorpe, Penelope Lively, Hilary Wainwright, Martha Kearney, Danny Alexander, Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech, Libby Purves, Max More, Wendy Beckett, Jill Paton Walsh, Hanna Neumann, Mary Archer, Miriam Gross, Pauline Stainer, Maria Aitken, David Langer, Elaine Kellett-Bowman, Juliet Barker, Frances Cairncross, Anne Dreydel, Zoë Heller, Gillian Beer, Frances Stonor Saunders, Shirley Pearce, Jackie Ashley, Alice Perkins, Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover, Jay Taverner, Victor Ubogu, Ruma Pal, M. R. Peacocke, Liam D'arcy Brown, Elizabeth Jeffreys. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 211. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Susan Sontag (pronounced ; January 16, 1933 December 28, 2004) was an American author, literary theorist, and political activist. Sontag, born Susan Rosenblatt, was born in New York City to Jack Rosenblatt and Mildred Jacobsen, both Jewish Americans. Her father ran a fur trading business in China, where he died of tuberculosis when Susan was five years old. Seven years later, her mother married Nathan Sontag. Susan and her sister, Judith, were given their stepfather's surname, although he never formally adopted them. Sontag did not have a religious upbringing. She claimed to have not entered a synagogue until her mid twenties. Sontag grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and, later, in Los Angeles, where she graduated from North Hollywood High School at the age of 15. She began her undergraduate studies at Berkeley but transferred to the University of Chicago in admiration of its famed core curriculum. At Chicago, she un...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=295860 ... Read more

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Melanie Janine Brown (born 29 May 1975) is an English pop singer and songwriter turned actress and television personality best known as one of the members of the girl group the Spice Girls, the most successful female group of all time. She was given the nickname "Scary Spice" by the British media because of her outrageous, "in-your-face" attitude, 'loud' Leeds accent, throaty laugh and manner of dress. ... Read more