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Jessica Porter’s got a new blog entry up on her website, http://www.hipchicksmacrobiotics.com/blog/.  It’s a great entry with two amazing recipes, and she announces that she has been working on a “SECRET PROJECT” of some sort… hmmm - could it be another book? 

There is also a link to a pretty great article from the LA Times on LA’s new Macrobiotic Scene.  In it, Betty Hallock talks about several new restaurants in LA sporting macrobiotic fare, and she uses a quote from the hip chick about using daikon juice to “windex” the inside of your body… hmmm… for me not the best analogy - as I’m not a huge fan of windex - but I get where’s she’s going with it!

During one of my brainless breaks from work at my dayjob, as I purused the star trackings on people.com, I learned that one more star seems to be at least somewhat macro - with a pic of Ellen Pompeo (Meredith Grey on Grey’s Anatomy) on her way to the macrobiotic restaurant M Café de Chaya in Beverly Hills on Tuesday.  Not that any of you care… I just find the “celebrity factor” quite interesting — we’ve got Madonna, and supposedly Gwyneth Paltrow, and now Ellen Pompeo, at least entertaining the idea of eating macrobiotic food.  I think it’s lovely.  There’s your news for today — a couple of recipes and all new reflections on the garden to come this week!

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Yes, you read it correctly — the very hip chick herself has graced A Grain A Day with a guest post! Thank you Jessica — we hope to have you again sometime soon! In case you have been living under a macrobiotic rock, Jessica Porter wrote “The Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics: A Philosophy for Achieiving a Radiant Mind and a Fabulous Body” back in 2004, and she single-handedly convinced me (and cooljuice) to go “whole hog.” Her humor, ability to be real, and intelligent explanations are all you need to get [and keep] you going… Please check out her website here (where she also maintains a hilarious and helpful blog), her book here, and her online macrobiotic cooking classes here. So with no further ado - take it away Jessica!

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I’ve been struggling to find balance in my life for a few years, but after reading Jessica Porter’s the Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics and Michio Kushi’s The Macrobiotic Way, I was inspired. Balancing yin and yang sounds like an adventure! And if I can manage a balanced intake then, heck, I might be able to moderate my crash and burn, adrenaline-fueled lifestyle. So… the morning I finished reading, I wrote out my first macrobiotic grocery list and headed to the local co-op.

Hijiki! Arame! Wakame! Kombu! Umeboshi! Shoyu! Nori! Miso! Dulse! Agar Agar! Holy Shitake! This stuff is expensive. I’m used to buying a tube of ground beef, salted butter, potatoes, and a bag of baby carrots. At $5 - $8 a pop for each bag of these sea vegetables, as well as all of the other organic products on the list, I’m starting to freak out because I’m about to drop a cool $200 on groceries. My new lifestyle is going to bankrupt me!

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Alright—I admit it. Today, I cheated. Well, I didn’t technically cheat because our three months of strict macrobiotics is over and there really isn’t any “cheating” in macrobiotics - it is about balance, and knowing what your body needs to be in balance, and honoring that, yada yada… but today I knowingly, willingly, bought a muffin from the shop just around the corner from my office.

It was a “cinnamon coffee cake” muffin full of white flour, refined sugar, and probably some knock-off of “real” cinnamon. I have my reasons and I could go through them with you, and I had my rationalizations which I could also bore you with, but the point is I bought it.

I carried it guiltily back to my office hoping no one would see me, and I ate it. Most of it… and about half way through I realized what I was doing and how it was already affecting my state of mind… and I kept eating…

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