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.

After watching the Blue Zones documentary on Netflix, I was inspired to try to have a mostly plant based diet and received this book as a gift. It has been very useful to learn the essential fundamentals of how to cook and eat a plant based diet and to experiment with some surprisingly tasty recipes. There are so many great dishes you can make from this and feel more connected to a traditional diet. The book is also beautiful. I have it laying on my coffee table and enjoy just flipping through it to see the beautiful pictures and descriptions of the different blue zones communities. I would recommend this book to almost anyone and have just gifted a copy to my parents.

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!

This plant-based cookbook contains recipes from some of the healthiest regions of the world, the Blue Zones. Be aware, however, that many recipes include white flour, refined sugar, oils, or may be fried. These recipes will not fit in with Dr. Esselstyn's heart disease prevention diet, Forks over Knives, The Alzheimer's Solution, or other currently popular diet programs for specific health concerns that also take inspiration from the Blue Zones. However, the recipes are still miles ahead of the Standard American Diet which most people follow. Therefore, many of us will benefit from this approach. And the recipes should appeal to everyone, no matter what diet or lifestyle you choose. The recipes are organized by region, not category. Beyond the actual recipes in this cookbook is a section which details the healthiest ingredients from each region featured in the book, as well as explanations why each ingredient is important. Almost all of these ingredients are easy to find at most supermarkets, or perhaps an occasional trip to an Asian market. Occasional substitutions are listed, such as using sweet potatoes instead of yuca in the Yuca Cakes recipe. The recipes are pretty much what you might expect for regional selections. Stuffed grape leaves from Greece. Toasted fregula from Sardinia. Okinawan Sweet Bread. And smoothies and smoothie bowls from Loma Linda. Throughout the book, though, you'll find a wide range of flavors, seasonings, and cooking techniques that bring extra flavor and variety to each meal. I was drawn to this cookbook not only because of the proven studies showing longer, healthier, and happier lives in the Blue Zones, but also because my mother has Alzheimer's and I worry about my own future. The Blue Zones are also regions where Alzheimer's rates are some of the lowest in the world. Loma Linda, California, boasts the lowest rates in our country. I'm already familiar with some of the recipes in this cookbook and look forward to trying more. Highly recommended.

Oneof the best cookbooks I ever bought!

Mi guía para mis comidas diarias

O livro e muito bom. Chegou bem embalado e em perfeito estado.

This was a gift for my husband and he absolutely loved it. Recipes are easy to follow and I enjoy it too.

This book is amazing. Every recipe I have tried I have loved... the simplicity is astonishing. I particularly love the chickpea and lemon soup - such basic ingredients but it's become a household favourite. I'm in Greece at the moment and I love going round the supermarkets and picking up the ingredients to authentically cook the recipes from the Greek section of the book. Really wonderful book and you won't even notice it's vegan.