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> Macro Magic for Kids and Parents
> The Wakame Gatherers
> Dashi and Umami
> The Real Taste of Japan
> Authentic Japanese Food
> Japanese Foods That Heal
> Greens and Grains on the Deep Blue Sea Cookbook
> Japanese Women Don't Get Old Or Fat
> The Japan Diet
> The Great Life Diet

Macro Magic for Kids and Parents

By Sheri-Lynn DeMaris

Taking the mystery out of macribiotic cooking, Macro Magic for Kids and Parents is a fun-packed, easy to read cookbook designed to teach the simplicity of macrobiotic cooking and eating well. 

One of the first unique healthy cookbooks of its time, Macro Magic for Kids and Parents offers recipes using only the finest natural organic produce, whole grains and grain sweeteners. Included is an abundance of information on healing foods, their properties and how to incorporate them into recipes. 

Author Sheri-Lynn DeMaris has practised and studies macrobiotics cooking and philosophy for 26 years. She has studied and taught cooking throughout the US and abroad. 

Printed in full colour throughout, this fact filled cookbook will delight readers of all ages. 

Available online at www.cedartreebooks.com

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The Wakame Gatherers

Nanami has two grandmothers: Baachan, who lives with her family in Japan, and Gram, who lives in Maine. When Gram visits Japan one spring Baachan takes her and Nanami to the seaside to gather wakame, a long, curvy seaweed that grows near shore.

While the three assemble their equipment and walk to the beach, Nanami and Baachan explain how wakame and other seaweeds are cultivated and used in Japan. Gram shares stories about how seaweeds are used in Maine, and Nanami translates for them both.

By the end of the day, Nanami's two grandmothers discover that they have much in common despite being from countries that fought in the war they both remember vividly. Now, looking out across the beach at the surfers, dog walkers, and seaweed gatherers, they share an appreciation of this precious peace.

Holly Thompson's beautiful prose captures the exuberance of a young girl who easily traverses two cultures and languages. azumi Wilds' bright, vivid paintings make the Japanese landscape and the rocky shores of Maine come alive, reminding us all that we share this earth and the peace that we create.

This book can be purchased online at www.amazon.co.uk

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Dashi and Umami

With forewords by Heston Blumenthal, Nobu Matsuhisa, Pascal Barbot and Kiyomi Mikuni. And seasonal recipes by the four leading kaiseki chefs in Japan.

The only guide to dashi and umami you’ll ever need! Japanese cuisine is lauded worldwide for its healthiness and its beauty. One of the foundations upon which this unique cuisine is built is the umami taste, a characteristic ‘savouriness’ achieved despite low levels of oil, salt and flavouring. It is dashi – stock - that is key to imparting this umami to so much of Japanese cuisine.

This beautifully illustrated book, packed with full-page colour photographs, reveals the secrets of dashi and umami, introducing the background and essence of Japanese cuisine together with a more scientific analysis of umami, its history and role in Japanese and world cuisine. The book is a comprehensive overview of everything the culinary professional or keen amateur needs to know about dashi and umami.

This publication can be purchased online at www.eat-japan.com

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The Real Taste of Japan

This book is an entertaining and useful guide to Clearspring's delicious Japanese artisan-crafted foods. Full of the stories behind the tastes, and top tips on how to use them, you'll find yourself dipping into these irresistable morsels of information almost as often as the packets themselves.

From shoyu to amazake, find out the facts about familiar and unusual Japanese ingredients. This book's also packed with over 50 delicious recipes showing you how to enjoy Japanese ingredients at their best.

It's easy when you know how.

The Real Taste of Japan can be purchased online at www.eat-japan.com
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Authentic Japanese Food

This latest publication from Eat-Japan forms a comprehensive overview of all that is great about traditional Japanese cuisine. It tells the fascinating story behind key Japanese ingredients and seasonings, many of which are available from Clearspring. Features also include umami - the fifth taste, modern Japanese restaurant design, sushi master course and much, much more. The volume also includes a comprehensive glossary of Japanese foods.

Japanese Foods that Heal

By John and Jan Belleme

In Japan there is an ancient saying – “Food is the Key to Health.” Today, modern science and medicine support this fundamental wisdom, and more and more people are realizing that diet is directly connected to their health and well-being.

This comprehensive and authoritative guide will show you how to include the healing foods of Japan in your everyday meals. Before long, you will experience the powerful benefits of this time-honoured healing tradition firsthand.

Of the eighteen healing foods introduced by the Bellemes, many are available from Clearspring. These are, miso, toasted sesame oil, shoyu, tamari, amazake, kuzu, brown rice vinegar, shiitake, brown rice malt syrup, umeboshi, mochi, noodles, sea vegetables, mirin and green tea.

This book can be purchased online at www.amazon.co.uk
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Greens and Grains on the Deep Blue Sea Cookbook

By Sandy Pukel and Mark Hanna

You are invited to come aboard one of America’s premier health cruises. Too busy to get away? Well, even if you can’t swim in the ship’s pool you can still enjoy its gourmet cuisine, because natural foods expert Sandy Pukel and master chef Mark Hanna have now put together Greens and Grains on the Deep Blue Sea Sea Cookbook – a titanic collection of the most popular vegetarian dishes served aboard the Holistic Holiday at Sea cruises.

This book can be purchased online at www.amazon.co.uk
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Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat

Delicious slimming and anti-ageing secrets

By Naomi Moriyama and William Doyle

In Japan, people live longer than anywhere else on Earth; obesity is virtually unknown, and 40-year-old women look like they’re 20. The secret: Japanese homestyle cooking, and an approach to eating that is not about self-deprivation, but about celebrating and savouring food.

Raised in Tokyo and on her grandparents' mountainside farm, author Naomi Moriyama first travelled to the West as a college student, and promptly gained 25 pounds eating an American diet. Returning home for the holidays, she found that the weight melted off as she returned to the healthy, soulful food of her mother’s tiny kitchen: satisfying soups, fresh vegetables, delicate grilled fish; mouthwatering meals that never left her feeling hungry.

Filled with delicious recipes and evocative reminiscences, this book is for all those who are tired of counting calories and carbs, and finding themselves on diets that don’t work. Japanese Women Don’t Get Old offers a delightfully fresh and easy approach to a healthier, slimmer, and longer lifestyle.

To read an extract of this book, click here.

For more information on this book visit www.japanesewomendontgetoldorfat.com

This bookcan be purchased online at www.amazon.co.uk
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The Japan Diet

The secret to effective and lasting weight loss

By Naomi Moriyama and William Doyle

From the authors of the bestselling Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat comes The Japan Diet, a guide to losing weight the Japanese way.
In Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat, Naomi Moriyama introduced us to the foundations of one of the healthiest diets on Earth – and now she’s back with The Japan Diet, a thirty day plan on how to incorporate the best of Japan-style eating into our own lives – and it works.
The Japan Diet is inspired by Naomi’s own experiences of growing up in Japan and it is based on a simple philosophy – gradual weight loss and long-term weight maintenance through healthy eating, active lifestyle and the best expert advice. The Japan Diet is not a restrictive set of rules, or a diet which calls for food groups to be eliminated, but a whole new way of falling in love with food.
The book is filled with over 40 simple, delicious recipes: satisfying soups, fresh vegetables, delicate grilled fish; mouthwatering meals that will keep you satisfied for longer. And with a 7-day Healthy Eating Plan built on the foundations of the Japanese diet, but based on ready meals, takeaway foods and convienence items from supermarkets, this book is also ideal for those dieters without the time to cook.

With clear, practical advice and handy shortcuts, this diet offers a fresh and easy approach to a healthier, slimmer lifestyle.

For more information on this book visit: www.thejapandiet.com

This book can be purchased at www.amazon.co.uk
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The Great Life Diet

By Denny Waxman

With the majority of Americans now attempting to eat healthier and an estimated million of them each year in the past decade adopting vegetarian or semi-vegetarian diets, The Great Life Diet is ready to enter the cultural mainstream.

In seven steps, The Great Life Diet offers a balanced and orderly approach to an active, fulfilling daily life. The aim always is to strengthen health, however good or ill. Indeed, thousands of people, their ailments ranging widely from the common cold to chronic fatigue to heart disease and even to "incurable" cancers, have been helped, often dramatically, by espousing the dietary and lifestyle practices described in Waxman's instructive guide.

With sound sense and flexible principles, this diet extends to its readers a means both to better their health and to significantly enhance the joy in their daily lives.

For more information on this book, see: http://www.dennywaxman.com/pubs.htm

This book can be purchased online at www.amazon.com
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