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Reading List

Required Reading List and Related Classes

  • Basics and Benefits of Macrobiotics by Ed Esko
    (Fundamentals, Adding Variety, Making Macrobiotics Work, Complete Meals)
  • Power Eating Program: You Are How You Eat by Lino Stanchich
    (Fundamentals, Adding Variety, Making Macrobiotics Work, Complete Meals)
  • Basic Macrobiotics by Herman Aihara
    (Fundamentals, Adding Variety, Making Macrobiotics Work, Complete Meals)
  • A Personal Peace: Macrobiotic Reflections on Mental and Emotional Recovery by David Briscoe
    (Making Macrobiotics Work, Home Remedies 1&2)
  • Healing Foods by Michio Kushi
    (Seasonal Cooking, Five Transformations Theory, Home Remedies)
  • Acid / Alkaline by Herman Aihara
    (Fundamentals, Home Remedies 1 & 2)
  • Philosophy of Oriental Medicine by George Ohsawa
    (Seasonal Cooking, Five Transformations Theory, Home Remedies)
  • If the Buddha Came to Dinner by Hale Sophia Schatz
    (Fundamentals)

Class Textbooks

  • The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
    (Business)
  • Natural Healing Head to Toe by Herman and Cornelia Aihara
    (Seasonal Cooking, Five Transformations Theory, Home Remedies)
  • Essential Ohsawa by Carl Ferre
    (Philosophy Study Group)
  • Book of Macrobiotics by Michio Kushi
    (Philosophy Study Group)
  • Healing with Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford
  • Macrobiotic Path to Total Health by Michio Kushi

Suggested Reading and Reference Books

  • Oriental Diagnosis, Reading the Body by Ohashi
  • Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin
  • Cooking the Way to the Life You Want by Christina Pirello
  • Glow by Christina Pirello
  • The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health by Michio Kushi
  • Stress and Hypertension by Michio Kushi
  • Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
  • Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
  • Good Carbohydrate Revolution by Terry Shintani
  • The Food-Mood-Body Connection by Gary Null
  • Nature's Cancer-Fighting Foods by Verne Varona
  • Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Suggested Cookbooks

  • Self-Healing Cookbook by Kristina Turner
  • Basic Macrobiotic Cooking by Julia Ferré
  • The Hip Chicks Guide to Macrobiotics by Jessica Porter
  • The Changing Seasons Macrobiotic Cookbook by Aveline Kushi and Wendy Esko
  • The Book of Whole Meals by AnneMarie Colbin
  • Cooking The Whole Foods Way by Christina Pirello
  • Rice is Nice by Wendy Esko
  • Soup de Jour by Wendy Esko
  • Natural Health Cookbook Published by Natural Health Magazine