Monday Gourmet Vegetarian Dinners in Palo Alto

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The Peninsula Macrobiotic Community serves a Gourmet Vegetarian Dinner

every Monday (except major holidays) in Palo Alto. This is a full vegan

dinner which includes soup, grain, beans or bean products, vegetables,

dessert, and beverage, prepared by expert natural foods Chef Gary

Alinder, our Chef since our inception in 1987. All are welcome!

 

Website: http://peninsulamacro.org - featuring newsletter, dinner menus,

and related information.

 

Dinner Reservations: please try to make your Dinner reservations by

Monday morning, 9:30 AM; call 650 599-3320. If it's after 9:30 and

you're still interested in coming, call and leave a number for the

manager to call you back if there is space. It is not necessary to

reserve for the After-Dinner presentation.

 

Time: dinner is served at 6:30 PM every Monday except major holidays;

the after-dinner presentation (once per month) starts at 8 pm.

 

Price: $14 for Dinner, $5-10 donation suggested for optional

after-dinner presentation (once per month)

 

Location: The First Baptist Church, 305 North California Avenue at

Bryant, Palo Alto, 1/4 mile East of Alma and the California Avenue

Caltrain Station.

 

After-Dinner Presentation: each month we feature an After-Dinner Lecture

or Event, described in the newsletter and website. Lectures are usually

on macrobiotic or other health related topics, by a variety of speakers

including macrobiotic counselors, medical doctors, cooking teachers, and

people who have dealt successfully with serious diseases using

macrobiotic or similar approaches. Other events have included

performances by folk singers and vegetarian Chinese acrobats. We have a

pass-the-hat policy for our events; we suggest a donation of $5-10.

 

Who Should Attend: All are welcome at our Dinners, vegetarian or not.

The Dinners are particularly helpful for those who want to eat in

healthy ways, but may not know how to get started. Many who attend may

have the same health concerns you have.

 

Dinner attendance ranges from 40 to 100, with a full spectrum of ages

spanning newborns to grandparents, including quite a few interesting

singles. Come with a friend or by yourself; singles easily integrate

into our friendly group, where seating is communal. Many long-term

friendships have started at a Monday Dinner, and are renewed every week!

 

January 14 Dinner Menu, 6:30 PM - Guest Chef James Holloway

 

Split Pea Soup

Tofu Balls with Savory Red Sauce

Polenta Torta with Roast Winter Squash

Broccolini, Collards, and Kale with Ginger Vinaigrette

Wild Greens and Arugula Salad

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Magic Mint Herbal Tea

 

Dinner Details:

- Monday, January 14, 6:30 pm

- $14 for Dinner

- please reserve for Dinner by Monday morning, 9:30 AM (650 599-3320);

reservations not needed for lecture

 

January 14 After-Dinner Presentation

 

Macrobiotic Counselor Julie S. Ong shares her Macrobiotic Journey: From

Migraines to Intuition and Spirituality. Suffering from the

debilitating effects of migraine headaches for 20 years, Julie

researched and tried everything, including supplements, drugs, physical

therapy, and acupressure. Like many people, she found that there was no

simple cause and effect, or magic bullet cure. Getting no results from

standard, external approaches, she began to look inward through

self-reflection.

 

Eventually she came upon macrobiotics. Eating macrobiotically,

especially whole grains, stabilized and calmed her, reducing occurrences

of her migraines and improving her ability to deal with them when they

did occur. She also started to discover her own intuition, through

cooking for herself and directly experiencing the effects first-hand.

She began to trust her intuition more and more.

 

This was paralleled by a growing interest in spirituality--she began to

ponder questions like, " What does it mean to be alive and to die? " She

started to view her migraines from a new perspective, as a really

powerful message from her body for attention and respect. They were also

an incentive to grow as a person, intuitively and spiritually. For

Julie, her migraines had changed, incredibly, from a source of

debilitating pain, to something to be grateful for.

 

A recent graduate of the Kushi Institute, the world-renowned leader in

macrobiotics, Julie is a certified macrobiotic counselor, spiritual life

coach, and natural chef. What began as a way to find relief for

debilitating migraines turned into a journey of self-discovery. She is

passionate about coaching her clients from the wholistic view of

macrobiotics, to nurture the self-transforming process of developing

one's own intuition and spirituality. She is currently a head chef at

Manzanita Restaurant in Oakland, specializing in organic vegan

macrobiotic cuisine. Visit http://omkariwholisticliving.com for more

information on Julie ( " Omkari " is her spiritual name).

 

Lecture Details:

- Monday, January 14, 8 pm

- $5-10 donation suggested for lecture

- The First Baptist Church, 305 North California Avenue at Bryant, Palo

Alto, 1/4 mile East of Alma and the California Avenue Caltrain Station

 

 

We hope to see you at a Monday Dinner! Please forward this message to

friends who may be interested.

 

Gerard Lum, Newsletter Editor and Webmaster

Peninsula Macrobiotic Community, http://peninsulamacro.org