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If you’ve ever thought, “I’d love to cook like someone who can blow out 100 birthday candles without needing a nap,” then The Blue Zones Kitchen is your culinary holy grail. This book is essentially the love child of a cookbook and a life coach, showing you how to eat like the world’s longest-living people while keeping things simple, hearty, and delicious.
The recipes hail from the fabled “Blue Zones”—places like Sardinia, Okinawa, and Nicoya—where people somehow outsmart death while making meals that are surprisingly low on kale but high on flavor. It’s filled with vibrant, plant-based dishes that make you realize beans are not just a side dish—they’re the main event. And it’s a feast! Chickpeas, black beans, fava beans, beans that probably haven’t even been named yet—they’re all here, ready to make you feel like a champion of longevity.
The best part? The recipes aren’t preachy. You’re not required to meditate while stirring the soup or perform yoga poses between courses. It’s all about creating wholesome, satisfying food that nourishes without making you feel like you’ve been banished to a life of quinoa and sadness.
And don’t worry, you’re not signing up for a monk-like existence. There’s wine (thank you, Sardinia!), there’s olive oil, there’s bread—because even centenarians know that life without bread isn’t really living.
The Blue Zones Kitchen isn’t just a cookbook; it’s a passport to living longer, better, and tastier. It’s filled with mouthwatering photos and storytelling that makes you feel like you’re learning the secrets of life from your wise old Italian grandmother—except she’s also best friends with a Japanese fisherman and a Costa Rican farmer. Highly recommended for anyone wanting to add a dash of longevity to their plate without sacrificing flavor.
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Repetitive as this may sound, dietary monotony may be an important component of longevity.Highlighted by 258 Kindle readers- If you can, strive to eat only sourdough or 100 percent whole wheat bread.Highlighted by 196 Kindle readers
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Secrets to a longer, better life
If you want to live to a healthy 100, eat like healthy people who’ve lived to 100. Working with renowned doctors and experts Gianni Pes and Michel Poulain, we identified the places around the world where people live the longest, drawing a line around each area in blue ink. Together, we created the concept of Blues Zones: the set of characteristics that have produced the world’s longest lived people. Their secrets can help you live a longer, better life.
Blue Zones Kitchen
100 Recipes to Live to 100
Building on decades of research, longevity expert Dan Buettner has gathered 100 recipes inspired by the Blue Zones, home to the healthiest and happiest communities in the world. Each dish uses ingredients and cooking methods proven to increase longevity, wellness, and mental health.These healthy living recipes make the Blue Zones lifestyle even more attainable, thereby improving your health, extending your life, and filling your kitchen with happiness.
- Chapter One: Sardinia
- Chapter Two: Okinawa
- Chapter Three: Nicoya
- Chapter Four: Ikaria
- Chapter Five: Loma Linda
Sweet Potato Bites
TOTAL COOK TIME: 10 MINUTES | MAKES 3 SERVINGS
1. Boil or steam the potatoes until tender, then mash potatoes with sugar.
2. Once cool enough to handle, roll potatoes into walnut-size balls.
3. On a clean surface, spread a layer of ground nuts of your choice or sesame seeds. Gently roll the potato balls in the nuts to coat.
4. Powder with cinnamon to serve.
Ingredients:
- 1 pound (about 3) white, orange, or purple sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1⁄3 cup ground peanuts, macadamia nuts, or sesame seeds
- Dash of cinnamon
Cream of Pumpkin Soup
TOTAL COOK TIME: 30 MINUTES | MAKES 2 SERVINGS
1. Place a steamer tray into a pot with about 2 inches of water. Bring water to a boil and steam squash until soft, about 15 minutes.
2. In a soup pot, stir-fry leeks in vegetable oil until soft but not browned, about 3-4 minutes
3. Add soy milk, steamed squash, and spices and simmer for 15 minutes.
4. Blend all together with an immersion blender or in a food processor (in batches, if necessary) until smooth. Add salt to taste.
Ingredients:
- ½ pound acorn or butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and cut into large chunks
- ¼ cup chopped leeks (or onion)
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1¾ cups unsweetened soy milk
- 1 teaspoon cumin seed
- 1 teaspoon dried turmeric
- 1 teaspoon salt, plus more if needed
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Decent Recipes With Caveats
Mr. Buettner has done a lot of work to produce a nice grouping of recipes with a vegan thrust as there is a suggestion that not even fish are eaten in Blue Zones as far as I could see. Yet we know that the Japanese in the longest living prefectures in the world do eat fish.What led to the 4 star rating were a few issues as cited below.Some of he Okinawa Blue Zone recipes appear to be flawed because several recipes here call for the simmering of miso. This procedure would kill off any beneficial bacteria the miso has to offer making the miso now essentially as source of salt. This suggests that Mr Buettner does not understand the purpose of the use of miso as at greater that 115 degrees Fahrenheit the beneficial miso bacteria will die.Many of the recipes in the blue zones call for the use of night shade vegetables. These vegetables over time are known to cause rheumatism and arthritis. This begs the question why would these long lived people's use unhealthy components in their regular diet.The recipes also use the very high oxalate vegtables such as spinach and Swiss chard that are known to cause kidney stones.I'm not saying that all or some or all of these components are never used. However, with so few recipes from each area, perhaps other components would be more useful.Still, this is a nice book. And, I do use it for ideas. With the above suggestions i do recommend the purchase of this book.
