How to Use macrobiotic in a Sentence

macrobiotic

adjective
  • The smell of organic coffee and macrobiotic lunch served by silent, underpaid service staff slides in under the chrome door handles.
    Kim Tran, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The Dragon Bowl is a macrobiotic classic that sounds horrible in theory but has always seemed like comfort food to me.
    Jay Sacher, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Despite its contemporary gloss, Erewhon started out as a macrobiotic wholesaler in the 1960s, selling mostly brown rice and tubs of miso.
    Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Its founders, Michio and Aveline Kushi, sought to make macrobiotic food more readily available.
    New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
  • De Maria chef Camille Becerra has always drawn upon her early training at macrobiotic restaurants and a Zen center.
    Christine Muhlke, Bon Appetit, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Lett grew up eating a Japanese-inflected macrobiotic diet in New Jersey, and spent a significant amount of time traveling to Japan while the restaurant was being built out.
    Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
  • In an era when vegetarian food was dreary (think lentil loaf and macrobiotic brown rice), people lined up to eat Greens’ signature dishes like wilted spinach salad with mint, and piquant, savory galettes, timbales and gratins.
    Jessica Zack, SFChronicle.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The 800-some guests dined on a macrobiotic salad served with poached shrimp that was followed by boneless brined mushroom and truffle short rib and a chocolate-raspberry tart before dancing to music provided by the symphony and Tracksuit Wedding.
    Joanne Davidson, The Denver Post, 11 May 2017
  • When her mother was struggling with cancer in the mid-1990s, her entire family went on a vegetarian macrobiotic diet to support her lifestyle changes.
    Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • There are six Passion Café locations across the island that each have different vibes, but are all focused on providing vegan, vegetarian, macrobiotic, and raw cuisine.
    Amy Louise Bailey, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The oblique cut is actually a classic technique used in macrobiotic cooking (her guiding theory, which prioritizes balance and wholesomeness), to derive the most nutrients out of an ingredient.
    Priya Krishna, Bon Appetit, 5 July 2017
  • Other than that, Adventure Nannies is open to all prior career backgrounds, including professional athletes, computer programmers, ex-military, published authors, historians, macrobiotic chefs, to name a handful of previous professions.
    Cristina Goyanes, Marie Claire, 14 Jan. 2019

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