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Macrobiotic Community of

Chico-Oroville, CA

Greater Boston-Central Area

Greater Boston-Northern Suburbs

Greater Boston-Southern Suburbs

Community Description
Area Description	Boston is the state capital and the largest city in New England. It is also New England's leading business, financial, government and transportation centers. In addition to its commercial importance, the Boston area is one of the nation's great educational centers. The metropolitan area population is 3,227,700.
Municipalities With Macrobiotic Services Or Activities	Acton, Arlington, Bedford, Bellingham, Belmont, Beverly, Boston, Brighton, Canton, Framingham, Franklin, Gloucester, Medway, Natick, Newtonville, Quincy, Raynham, Reading, Saugus, Stoneham, Waltham, Wellesley Hills, Winthrop, Roslindale.
Summary and Impressions of the Community	Brookline was the earliest Macrobiotic Center established in the early 1970's by Michio and Aveline Kushi. It was the magnet of the macrobiotic community until 1986, when the main activities of the Kushi Institute (KI) were moved to Becket, MA, in the western Berkshire Mountains. Brookline was the location of the KI from the late 1960's until it moved to Becket, MA in 1986. The Kushi House and other study houses--notably Clyde Motosue--continue to operate in Brookline and nearby. Once the home of four thriving macrobiotic restaurants--Open Sesame, Five Seasons, Satori, Masao's Kitchen. Masao's Kitchen in Waltham is now the only macrobiotic restaurant in the Boston Area. Erewhon, a health food store begun by the Kushi's was the first whole foods market in the United States. It now no longer operates. Although, organized community activities have waned since the KI moved, the Boston area remains an established base for many macrobiotic practitioners, estimated by Yogen Kushi to be between 200 and 500 people. Warren Kramer, a senior macrobiotic counselor with an extensive Kushi Institute background, also teaches, cooks, and continues to be very active in the area. Macrobiotic resources are still very extensive; services and goods are readily available.
Macrobiotic Community Assessment	Abundant Services: 4 counselors & 3 cooking teachers. Healthy Activities: monthly pot luck and monthly dinners/lectures; Stronger community when KI was in Brookline; 5 macro restaurants at one time; now 1; Michio Kushi started macrobiotic teaching in the late 1960’s.

Professional Services
Resident Counselors	Warren Kramer; Karin Stephan; Michio Kushi (at Kushi House); Marc van Cauwenberghe.
Resident Cooking Teachers	Warren Kramer; Evelyn Harboun
Visiting Counselors and Cooking Teachers	None
Professional Cooks or Caterers	Margo Marver; Gina and Emanuel

Interviewed Macrobiotic Practitioners
Warren Kramer
Length of Macrobiotic Practice	23 Years
Community Functions	Macrobiotic counseling, traveling seminars, monthly cooking classes at Bread and Circus health food store, monthly dinner-lectures, monthly pot lucks. He teaches at Denny Waxman's Strengthening Health Institute, and travels consistently to Atlanta, GA, St Louis, MO, Portland, ME, Teaneck, NJ, Durham, NC. He also counsels in New York City every six weeks, besides his own counseling in the Boston area. He is a faculty member of the Kushi Institute (KI).
Macrobiotic Study	Completed Levels I, II, and III at the KI and has taken two sessions of Level IV. He scribed for Michio Kushi's consultations for 11 years, served as a traveling live in cook for 6 years.
Alternative Healing Modes	None
Karin Stephan
Length of Macrobiotic Practice	37 years
Community Functions	Provides health consultations; yoga teacher. Karin organizes macrobiotic vacations--about 3-4 per year around the world; many of those attending have cancer.
Macrobiotic Study	Studied for many years with Michio and Aveline Kushi. Karin organized the first KI seminar in Europe in 1974 for Michio Kushi, and followed him till 1980. She lived in the Kushi House for 1-year, and has attended all the summer macrobiotic conferences since 1974.
Alternative Healing Modes	None
Yogen Kushi
Length of Macrobiotic Practice	From Birth
Community Functions	Publishes the Non Credo Newsletter.
Macrobiotic Study	Yogen is currently taking level IV at the KI.
Alternative Healing Modes	None

Support System
Paid or Potluck Dinners	There are monthly potluck dinners, and Warren Kramer has monthly dinners and lectures at the Brighton Store of Bread and Circus.
Education Centers	None
Seminars	Warren Kramer's monthly dinners and lectures at Bread and Circus.
Newsletter	None
Support Groups	None
Work Study Program	None
Publications, Books, Cassettes	At whole food supermarkets
Web Sites	http://www.shaws.com

Natural Food Sources
Macrobiotic Restaurants	Masao's in Waltham. 20 restaurants, in addition to Bread and Circus Whole Foods Market, with vegan options
Natural Food Chain Stores	Bread and Circus, Wild Harvest
Independent Natural Food Stores	Teaberries, Newburyport Natural, Common Crow, Good Health Natural Foods, Healing Naturals
Natural Food Coops	Harvest Co-Op, Cape Ann Food Co-Op
Mail Order Buying Clubs	None
Cottage Industries	None