Author: Dan Buettner
Year published: 2025
Category: Adult nonfiction
Pages: 256 pages
Rating: 4 out of 5
Location: (my 2025 Google Reading map): No location
Summary: After more than 20 years spent uncovering the secrets of the blue zones—the happiest and healthiest places around the world—Dan Buettner puts the lessons he's learned into practice with 100 research-backed recipes designed to boost your longevity.
Inside you'll find easier-than-ever plant-based breakfasts, dinners, snacks, and sides inspired by the blue zones, with grocery store-available ingredients and made with flavors Americans love best, including:
- A protein-packed Tex-Mex Breakfast Skillet
- The perfect crunchy snack: Crispy Roasted Chickpeas
- Good-for-the-soul Creamy White Bean and Tomato Soup
- A twist on a classic: a Deluxe Blue Zones Minestrone
- Veggie-loaded Spanakopita Pasta
- Crowd-pleasing Southern Style Sheet Pan BBQ Tofu with Sweet Corn and Green Beans
- An easy Slow Cooker Bourguignon
- No-Bake Peanut Butter and Honey Cookie Bites
Written with busy households in mind, these one pot, one pan, or one baking sheet recipes enable you to eat like the world’s longest-lived people without spending hours in the kitchen.
Perfect for busy families, health-minded home cooks, culinary enthusiasts, and anyone interested in eating the Blue Zones way, this is a cookbook that will change your diet—and your life.
Review: Thank you to Trish from TLC Book Tours for letting me read and review this book! I am all about cooking that is easy, and one-pot is just my style.
I am all about one-pot cooking so this one appealed to me from the start. The author, a National Geographic scientist, looked at ares of the world where the people naturally live to 100 in happy, healthy lives. He then took what they eat and how they live and put it in a cookbook. Cool idea.
Blue Zone folks garden, walk (living in walkable towns and cities), and they eat mostly plant-based diets high in legumes, nuts, seeds, and whole grains. The recipes in this book are the types of things I really like to eat, but they are a level above my usual cooking efforts. I am not saying that they are difficult, but that they are a bit more effort than I usually put in. Perhaps I need to try some of these on the weekend when I have more time, and then I would have leftovers to eat during the week.
If you like flavorful vegetarian cooking, then this cookbook would be a good one for you!
Challenges for which this counts:
- Nonfiction--Food
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