Yes, the entry to Casa de Luz Austin really looks like this at night. Over twenty years ago, a group of people took an abandoned meat packing plant just south of the Colorado River/Town Lake and turned it into a pocket of paradise ( Read more... )

"Whether Casa de Luz closes or stays open is decided this evening (Wednesday, 9-26-2012) at City Hall on Caesar Chavez Dr. The Building and Standards Commission will make a binding decision tonight at 6:30, Room 1101, 301 West 2nd Street. This is a public meeting. You and everyone that has an interest in keeping Casa de Luz open is invited to ( Read more... )

Save money and improve your health. Beans are one of the best ways to go!
( Tips on cooking beans. )

These are not Alfreda’s suggestions - these suggestions came to me from Leslie, the macrobiotic chef who first taught me how to cook whole grains, nourishing teas, and beans that did not argue with me. She wrote up a list of “rules” to help us benefit from the freshest, healthiest food possible ( Read more... )

Let’s talk about one of my cornerstones of healing - Vega Morning Tea. The basics of this come from a medicinal tea created by Herman and Cornelia Aihara, the great teachers and cheerleaders of the American Macrobiotic movement. They designed it for cancer patients, but I think that anyone suffering from a chronic illness, or anyone who feels ( Read more... )

"Snacking of the Desperate" has gone up over at the Book View Cafe Blog.

The series, which is a snapshot version of testing a gluten-free diet in only 30 days, starts here.

Access to nutrients. That is a big part of eating in a macrobiotic manner. Roasting, toasting, soaking, and in some cases boiling all allow the food to be digested swiftly, gently, in its best form. If your gut hurts right now, raw food is probably the opposite of what you should give it. I may say “Macrobiotic Diet” but what you should hear is, ( Read more... )

Macrobiotic = Long Life.

From the Greek “macro” (large, long) and “bios” (life)

“Doing something over and over the same way and expecting a different result is considered a sign of insanity.”I’ve never had what you might call the average American diet. Junk food has been minimal in my life. My father was a dentist. I never tasted candy until I ( Read more... )

This is sort of a tiny LBb Report. I'm going to break down and write one this month, in small chunks, because it's been a long time and I was pretending I never had to write another one again ( Read more... )

In less than 24 hours I have managed to, at the least, jam one little toe and quite possibly break the other one. Why do I watch friends going barefoot in their homes and think I can do this?
( Unpacking commences. )