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.

 

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: $15 for Dinner (increase effective February 4), $5-10 donation

suggested for after-dinner presentation

 

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. Also, choosing locally grown,

vegetarian foods is one of the best ways to reduce your carbon

footprint on the planet.

 

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!

 

 

MARCH 10 PRESENTATION: ESSENTIAL CLEANSING FOR OPTIMAL HEALTH AND

WEIGHT LOSS

 

Be sure to join us on Monday, March 10 at 8 pm, when Nutrition

Consultant Christine Rosche will speak on Essential Cleansing for

Optimal Health and Weight Loss. Environmental and internal toxins can

have serious effects on your metabolism and endocrine system.

Christine will cover the following topics and more:

 

- the effects of toxins, including weight gain and difficulty losing

weight

- the top five hormone disruptors and how to avoid them

- foods that make you toxic

- foods that help you detoxify

- identifying your toxic burden

- your genetic detox type

- spring cleaning of your body and your life.

 

Christine Rosche, MPH, CBT is a Nutrition Consultant, Nationally

Certified Biofeedback Therapist, and Medical Hypnotherapist. She has

25 years experience in health care, including 10 years at Stanford

University Medical Center. She is in private practice in Palo Alto,

specializing in integrative nutritional counseling for your unique

metabolic body type, sugar and carb addictions, eating disorders,

metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and digestive imbalances. She is the

author of Light Living: An Integrated Approach to Health and Weight,

and has developed a 12 module course on healthy eating and weight

loss. For more information, visit her website

http://www.lightlivingprogram.com.

 

Lecture Details:

- Monday, March 10, 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

 

 

GOURMET VEGETARIAN DINNER MENU, MARCH 10, 6:30 PM

 

Sea Vegetable Celebration III

Squash, Aduki, Shiitake Mushroom Soup

Chickpea Cutlets with Rich Curried Onion Gravy

Basmati Rice

Spicy Arame, Carrot, Daikon Salad *

Ginger-Braised Cabbage with Broccoli

Roasted Pear Bread Pudding with Tofu Cream

Tea

 

*includes sea vegetables; another Dinner featuring sea vegetables will

be served on March 24

 

Dinner Details:

- Monday, March 10, 6:30 pm

- $15 for Dinner

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

reservations not needed for lecture

 

 

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

friends who may be interested.

 

Gerard T. Lum, Newsletter Editor and Webmaster

Peninsula Macrobiotic Community, http://peninsulamacro.org