Summary and
Impressions
of the Macrobiotic Community: Cincinnati had an
active macrobiotic community during the eighties. It was
introduced to the Cincinnati area by Brad Collins and Robin in the
early 1980's. Brenda Clark and Gale Howe started their involvement
in the community in the mid 1980's and continued till the early 1990's.
Stan Kingman has organized potluck dinners for the past 20 years. Charles
Kabenji was also active for a long time, but now focuses only on shiatsu
massage. Community activities diminished around 1993-94 when
some key players got divorced and others' new spouses did not support
their partner's interest in macrobiotics. In mid 2001, the untimely passing's of
Judy Paris and Stewart Morrissey, long time macrobiotic practitioners, shocked the community. Some macrobiotic activity remains, but the
bonds that held it together for so long have been severed. Ruth and
Howard Hughes make an effort to keep the macrobiotic spark alive from
their nearby Indiana farm.
Paid
or Potluck Dinners:No dinners. There are monthly potluck lunches at the Hughes farm in
Brookville, IN.
Education
Centers:None.
Seminars:Annual seminars are
held at the Hughes farm on a weekend when people can camp out with their
families.
Newsletter:After 15 years, the
newsletter produced by Ruth and Howard Hughes, stopped last year.
Support Groups:None
Visiting
Counselors and Cooking Teachers:
None
Resident
Counselors:None
Resident
Cooking Teachers:Ruth Hughes
Professional
Cooks or Caterers:None
Work
Study Programs:
None
Other
Counselor Interests:None
Promotional
Activities:None
Publications,
Books, Cassettes:Some in health food stores.
Macrobiotic
Community Assessment:Moderate Services: 1
part time cooking teacher. Dormant Activities: annual seminar only.
Used to be strong community from the early 1980’s to early 1990’s.
Area Description: Cincinnati is
a major industrial and commercial center of the Midwest. It lies on
the Ohio River in the southwestern part of the state. It is one of
the most beautiful cities in the nation and was once called the Queen City
of the West. Its metropolitan area population is 1,526,100.
Municipalities with Macrobiotic services or community activities:
Carlisle,
Cincinnati, Dayton, Fairfield, Oxford, Ohio; Brookville, Indiana
Summary and
Impressions
of the Macrobiotic Community:The East-West Foundation of Cleveland, established by Robert Carr 25
years ago, is the longest continuously operated macrobiotic center
in the country. When Robert left Cleveland to operate a
macrobiotic center in Germany, he left the operation of the
Cleveland center in the hands of Francois Roland, who kept it going
for 5 years till Robert returned.
There are three macrobiotic counselors and
four certified cooks providing services in the area. The
Center hosts weekly elaborate dinners for 30-40 people, has an
excellent web site, and an online newsletter. Few other
communities can boast such extensive macrobiotic services.
Robert's consistently strong leadership has been recognized by
macrobiotic practitioners everywhere; nearly every great teacher has
lectured at the center over the many years of its existence.
An estimated 5,000 - 10,000 people have been exposed to
macrobiotics through cooking lessons, lectures, and consultations in
the Greater Cleveland area in the past 15 years.
Paid
or Potluck Dinners: Every
Wednesday, there is an elaborate macrobiotic buffet at the
macrobiotic center, attended by 30-40 people.
Education
Centers:
There are cooking classes available at the Center, books, shiatsu,
and outside lecturers. Just about every senior macrobiotic
teacher has visited the Cleveland center at one time or another in
the past: Michio Kushi, Muramoto, Geraldine Walker, Cornelia Aihara,
Mary Kett, Diane Avoli, among others. There was a Kushi
Institute extension program for 3 years in Cleveland in the early
1990's, but not anymore.
Seminars:Francois Roland
lectures on Basics of Macrobiotics, diet and healing, and other
macrobiotic topics.
Newsletter:There is a
newsletter published by Robert Carr that is available for a fee over
the internet.
Macrobiotic
Restaurants:
A macrobiotic dish may be ordered at A.J. Gross; otherwise, there
are no macrobiotic restaurants.Each Mustard Seed Market restaurant has a macrobiotic
special. 11 restaurants advertise vegan options on their menus.
Natural
Food Chain Stores:Wild Oats; 2 stores.
Independent
Natural Food Stores:Mustard Seed
Market, Nature's Bin West, Weber's, Nature's Bin East, Web of Life,
Take a Bite, Feel Rite Health Food Shop, Hobart Health Foods,
American Harvest, Marshalls, Caitos, Nature's Goodness, New Earth
Natural Foods, Cappabiancas, Seven Grains.
Area Description:Cleveland
is the largest metropolitan area in Ohio and one of the leading
industrial centers in the country. It lies on the southeastern
shore of Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River.
Cleveland is a large steel producer, and ranks as a transportation,
medical and cultural center of the midwest and a chief port of the
Great Lakes. Its metropolitan area population is 2,202,100.
Municipalities with Macrobiotic services or community activities:Akon,
Cleveland, ClevelandHeights,
Kent, Lakewood, Richfield, Sagamore Hills, Woodmere.
This
work was supported by Grant/Cooperative Agreement Number U48/CCU409664-09
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are
solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent
the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Macrobiotics
Research Project:
A
2-year grant sponsored by Centers of Disease Control; October 2000 to September
2002
University
of South Carolina, Prevention Research Center-Special Interest Project, School
of Public Health