The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100

10 reviews for The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100

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   TofuMan – March 28, 2025

   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.

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   Adam/Traci – March 28, 2025

   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?!

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   Still waiting – March 28, 2025

   I LOVE this cookbook!
   I have a LOT of plant based cookbooks. This one is such a wealth of information, extremely interesting, gorgeous photography, and simple, interesting, authentic dishes that our grandparents and great grandparents ate daily.
   Don’t pay attention to the sniping – the majority of the centenarians across the 5 blue zones were NOT vegan, and DID eat grains regularly. Which should put to rest the Western phobia about grains and gluten. But apparently many did not make that connection.
   The recipes are simple and tasty – after all, they are what everyday rural, non-industrial populations eat EVERYDAY (someone criticized the recipes for being “ordinary everyday food.”
   And surprise, there is white flour and sugar in a few recipes. So, yes, if you’re eating pounds of beans and vegetables everyday and getting lots of daily exercise, a) prevalence of lifestyle disease is very very low or nonexistent, and therefore, b) it’s possible to enjoy a sweet treat once or twice a week – like ONE serving, not a whole cake – without your body and brain having a meltdown.
   Don’t be deceived by the simplicity of most of the recipes – the natural flavors of the whole foods, the food and spices and herb combinations reveal the instinctive genius of our ancestors and explains the lack of lifestyle diseases that lead to the long, slow, and miserable health declines we’ve come to take for granted in the past 100 years. If you didn’t die of infectious diseases, accidents, or acute, random maladies such as appendicitis, or childbirth, most people lived into their 80s. Then in the 50s, in spite of the miracle drugs such a insulin, antibiotics, etc, more people began living into older age – but began declining sooner. Doesn’t have to be that way.

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   Beverly S – March 28, 2025

   Love the book!
   THE BLUE ZONES KITCHEN offers numerous delicious recipes for cooking like those who live in areas where it is common for people to live to be over 100 years old! While I may not live that long, I am interested in eating healthier and keeping my body in better shape as I age. Photos are beautiful, and recipes look easy to follow. Details about how people live in various blue zones is included.
   I deducted a star since my book was sent damaged; nothing else was in the box that would have poked a hole and torn the binding.

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   Josie – March 28, 2025

   Amazing Quality Book with Amazing Food!
   When this book first arrived, I was shocked by the wonderful quality for what I paid. What a deal! The pictures are actually quite beautiful and the back stories for recipes and regions are intriguing!
   I bought this book to encourage myself on my health journey and to make delicious recipes for my family to encourage them to be healthy, too. When I first saw all the veggies, I thought there was no way I could get my Midwesterner meat eating husband and fast food loving teenage sons to eat these meals, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised. The Ikarian Fennel Stew was a hit! My husband got a second bowl and one of my sons quickly scarfed it down. I personally love the falafel recipe, it makes enough food to last me all week and there are still so many recipes I look forward to trying!
   Since cooking from this book as a predominant method, I have lost weight without trying which has been another added bonus. Here’s to not just eating healthy, but to eating delicious foods along the way!

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   Nigel w. – March 28, 2025

   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

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   T. Allen – March 28, 2025

   Beautifully designed and so uplifting! And then there’s the recipes…easy to prepare and delicious! I’ve tried 5 so far.

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   Karen lee – March 28, 2025

   Good info and recipes and why they work

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   Malla – March 28, 2025

   Boken uppfyllde alla mina förväntningar. Rekommenderas.

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    NolNol – March 28, 2025

    I love the great recipe ideas in this book
    I follow the blue zone principles so this is a perfect read and reference