March 2nd, 2006
Shiitake’s mailbag has been overflowing with questions since her debut in the last issue of Macrobiotics Today. Here she answers one reader’s question.
How do you handle going to potlucks? We went to one last night, and I didn’t have time to prepare a special dish, which is unusual. Everything there had something in it that I’ve been avoiding. However after a weekend worth of cooking at a restaurant I was tired and hungry. I opted to eat a small bowl of food. I blessed it and hoped somehow these foods would nourish rather than harm me. I avoided the truly unhealthy items and went for the best. It was yummy. I usually don’t have nutmeg pesto lasagna, garlic mashed potatoes, and salad with honey in the dressing – not to mention the little truffle afterwards! Yes, I am feeling guilty. But despite a little tummy ache this morning and the knowledge that I may be more sensitive today, I feel pretty good. I’m definitely enjoying my miso soup and barley cardamom porridge with a few raisins and a touch of brown rice syrup. Wondering how you deal with these gatherings? Thanks.
Lysia Jones (no known
relation to Shiitake)
from North Carolina
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March 1st, 2006
Ken had an inkling that this cooking class to which he had been invited by striking yoga teacher and macrobiotic hip chick extraordinaire, Shiitake Jones held more romantic potential than he had been willing to admit to himself. He knocked nervously at the recycled bamboo door of Shiitake’s abode. When he had encountered her while stocking up on macrobiotic staples for his new lifestyle at the local Wild Rice Super Wholefoods store, the electricity that had sparked between them over a box of Quinoa was something he had never felt the likeness of. Organic, locally produced, preservative free chardonnay in hand, Ken waited on the doorstep in anticipation. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 1st, 2006
Deep in the heart of the newly refurbished downtown Wild Rice Super Wholefoods store, self professed macrobiotic hip chick, Shiitake Jones was carefully inspecting a batch of new season biodynamic short grain brown rice in the bulk foods section. It seemed to be of reasonable quality so she filled several brown paper bags with it, collected her chickpeas, adzuki beans and barley and headed off in search of some rare quality wildcrafted kuzu collected under the full moon by Mongolian peasants in the middle of winter. It would be such a relief to cross that off her shopping list. Read the rest of this entry »
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