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The Self-Healing Cookbook: A Macrobiotic Primer for Healing Body, Mind and Moods With Whole, Natural Foods
Kristina Turner
A macrobiotic primer with an unusually gentle, hand-drawn charm — the kind of small-press book that quietly went through edition after edition because people actually used it. Kristina Turner, trained in the West Coast whole-foods movement of the 1970s and 80s, wraps 130-plus dairy- and refined-sugar-free recipes in self-guided tools: food-mood charts, a shopping list, a glossary of healing foods, a workbook. Its premise is simple — what you eat shapes how you feel — and its aim is to make macrobiotics approachable rather than austere. Take it as a friendly introduction to the cooking and its philosophy, not as medical guidance; the health claims come from macrobiotic belief, not clinical evidence. On those terms it's genuinely usable, and disarmingly warm.
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The author
Kristina Turner is an American macrobiotic cook and teacher who trained in the whole-foods movement that flourished on the West Coast in the 1970s and 80s. She wrote The Self-Healing Cookbook to make macrobiotics approachable, and it grew through many revised editions into a durable small-press success.
The book
The book blends recipes with self-guided tools: food-mood charts, a shopping list, a glossary of healing foods and a workbook section, wrapped around 130-plus whole-food recipes free of dairy and refined sugar. Its central premise is that what you eat shapes how you feel, and that adjusting the diet can ease diet-related moods and symptoms.
How to read it
Use it as a gentle introduction to macrobiotic cooking and its philosophy, not as medical guidance — its health claims stem from macrobiotic belief rather than clinical evidence. Taken that way, it's genuinely usable, and its friendly, illustrated style makes the unfamiliar ingredients less daunting.
For more context
Readers wanting the tradition's origins can look to the writings of George Ohsawa and Michio Kushi, who brought macrobiotics to the West.
Sources
- Type
- Book
- Author / Maker
- Kristina Turner
- ISBN
- None
- Shelf
- Craft & How-to
- Location
- Colorado