Feeding Your Family: Living Large

This article is featured in the October '07 Feeding Your Family Newsletter  Recipes: Baked Veggie Tempura | What's in Season? Squash | Living Large | Things We Love! Cloth Bags |  Health Check: Diet Sodas

By Larissa Phillips

I am going macrobiotic.

Not in the traditional sense of the word, of course. The standard macrobiotic diet - with its prescription for brown rice, seaweed and not much else - left me shaky and starving the one time I seriously tried it. But, as it turns out, there is more to macrobiotic than just vegan Japanese food.

The word macrobiotic is based on the Greek words for "large life," and it is much more concerned with planetary health and world peace than it is with supplying Hollywood starlets with a restrictive eating plan. Based essentially on the concepts of yin and yang, macrobiotics is about balance. A primary way to achieve nutritional balance is to eat locally and seasonally, two words that are all about delicious.