The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100
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Best-selling author Dan Buettner debuts his first cookbook, filled with 100 longevity recipes inspired by the Blue Zones locations around the world, where people live the longest.
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–for example, Sardinian Herbed Lentil Minestrone; Costa Rican Hearts of Palm Ceviche; Cornmeal Waffles from Loma Linda, California; and Okinawan Sweet Potatoes–uses ingredients and cooking methods proven to increase longevity, wellness, and mental health. Complemented by mouthwatering photography, the recipes also include lifestyle tips (including the best times to eat dinner and proper portion sizes), all gleaned from countries as far away as Japan and as near as Blue Zones project cities in Texas. Innovative, easy to follow, and delicious, 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.
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The Blue Zones Kitchen offers 100 healthy recipes from America’s best plant-forward cuisines. Blue Zones—a documentary on Netflix—brings readers an informative guide to the places on Earth where people live the longest—including top longevity foods and the behaviors to help you live to 100. This companion book offers a four-week guide and year-long sustainability program to jump-start your journey to better health, happiness, less stress, and a longer life. Dan Buettner reveals the surprising secrets of what makes the world’s happiest places—and shows you how to apply these lessons to your own life. Dan Buettner serves up 100 one-pot and one-pan recipes inspired by the blue zones to help busy home cooks live to 100 with ease!
Publisher : National Geographic
Publication date : December 3, 2019
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 1426220138
ISBN-13 : 978-1426220135
Item Weight : 2.45 pounds
Reading age : 1 year and up
Dimensions : 8.3 x 1.08 x 10.27 inches
Part of series : The Blue Zones
Best Sellers Rank: #1,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Vegan Cooking (Books) #7 in Aging & Longevity (Books) #9 in Celebrity & TV Show Cookbooks
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TofuMan –
Real food for people who want to live as long as my Mum (who will be 100 next year).
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.
Joanna D. –
Recipes with Blue Zone food ingredients for long life
Blue Zones: areas of the world where the residents have a long, healthy old age. Okinawa is one of them, and the recipe here for sweet potatoes is one I’m familiar with. In fact, I spent time in Japan, found I lost weight without trying (something normally difficult for me) running my legs off up and down stairs and eating nearly no sugar for the time I was there. The lack of sugar was startling in the Japanese diet, in particular.The one hundred recipes in “Blue Zone Kitchens” are not outlandish and though there are a few unusual ingredients, they are obtainable by mail order if you live in a more remote area; for example goji berries are found in health food stores and Asian groceries but you can mail order them. These are used in a breakfast oatmeal dish and they add a lot of important anti-oxidants.Most of the recipes, however are things you can find anywhere and are not unusual. You can find more recipes such as Pumpkin pancakes. Breakfast burritos with black beans by signing up for the Blue Zone website and newsletter.So not only eating but lifestyle is important; having friends and family in a tight network (a friend who lived in a Thai village said it was UNTHINKABLE to be alone) and plenty of gentle but daily constant exercise and movement. And the Okinawan idea of eating 80 percent full known as “hara hachi bu”.I was amused to see Hearts of Palm ceviche (raw “fish” marinated) as I love hearts of palm but here they are only found canned. Still, they are really delicious and you can make a meal out of a salad if you cut them up and put them in. Better than artichokes. The Costa Rican recipes in particular are light and flavorful. Though I love Japanese food, I actually loved the Costa Rica chapter the best.And the ancient foods of Sardinia; you haven’t lived until you’ve tried Fregula, their primitive, rolled pasta, a relative of cous cous. It’s really good. There is one recipe for fregula with asparagus but it’s versatile and very light. You get pasta, but you don’t feel heavy after eating it. There is also a recipe for the Sardinian flatbread, their ancient bread originally made on the floor of woodfired ovens. You can see this being made in one of the episodes of Anthony Bourdain.Lots of delicious recipes. Will you live longer? Not sure this book alone will do it, but good recipes high in fiber and low in saturated fats and full of flavor.
Adam/Traci –
Gorgeous AND Useful!!
In order to use a cookbook, you need to enjoy looking through it (otherwise, you’ll pull something up from the web and never find it again, right?). This book should be on coffee tables, it’s so beautiful! The photos from around the world and of people living happy lives makes you want to create these dishes. I also appreciate the included stories and info on communities/people.I love that the ingredients are SIMPLE. You don’t have to wander Whole Foods for an hour looking for an exotic spice you’ll never use again! The dishes are hearty, flavorful, and easy to make – very satisfying. They also give room for you to add your favorite veggies and spices if desired.I’ve even been to a Blue Zone dinner party where everyone brought a dish. We were soooo full, because everything was delicious! There’s no guilt associated with this book, only visual beauty, great health and satisfying flavor – WHY would you pass that up?!
Nigel w. –
A lovely and well illustrated cook book. A real range and variety of recipes with clear instructions. I’ve already made some lovely dishes and looking forward to many more over the coming months
T. Allen –
Beautifully designed and so uplifting! And then there’s the recipes…easy to prepare and delicious! I’ve tried 5 so far.
VDK –
I’ve followed Dan Buettner’s work for a long time now and find his work on the blue zones to be extremely interesting. I started eating around 80% of my diet in the blue zones manner and enjoyed it so much I’ve been eating almost solely in this way. I find the recipes and information in the book to be excellent. Not only healthy and easy to prepare but also very tasty and economical. There is room for adding your own creative flair whilst keeping the recipe within the ethos of the blue zones. Many of these recipes are so easy you’ll wonder why you never thought of them yourself. Highly recommended!
Malla –
Boken uppfyllde alla mina förväntningar. Rekommenderas.
Steffen J. –
Dieses Buch führt den Leser durch die Küchen von 5 Regionen dieser Welt, wo Menschen leben, die bei guter Gesundheit ein hohes Alter erreichen. Der Autor Dan Buettner und der Photograph David McLain haben Ihre Reise sehr gut beschrieben und illustriert, mit wertviellen Ernährungstipps versehen. Natürlich kann und muss man nicht jedes Rezept sofort nachkochen, mir reicht oft die Inspiration welche Zutaten ich kombinieren könnte allein schon aus. Zwei Rezepte sind allerdings sofort in meine eigenes Kochbuch, dass ich meinen Patienten zur Verfügung stelle, eingeflossen, da sie genial einfach und sehr, sehr schmackhaft sind…Noch ein Tipp, ich würde immer empfehlen die Originalausgabe in Originalsprache zu kaufen, gerade wen nes sich um die Englische Sprache handelt, da die Übersetzungen in der REgel gruselig und sehr oft sehr ungenau sind…