The Blue Zones Kitchen
by Dan Buettner
A hundred recipes from the five longevity regions (Ikaria, Sardinia, Okinawa, Nicoya, Loma Linda) with the research on what their diets share: beans, greens, whole grains, little meat. It is a cookbook first and a health book second.
Read it if…
you want to eat the way the longest-lived people eat, with recipes.
Skip it if…
you want the research argument; see The Blue Zones.
Three things you will actually use
- Beans are the longevity staple.
- Plant-slant, not plant-only.
- Cook at home; it is the hidden variable.
Do this first
Cook one bean dish from each region this month.
Our verdict
Longevity, with recipes.
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