If you want to live to a healthy 100, eat like healthy people who’ve lived to 100. In his highly anticipated cookbook debut, three-time New York Times bestselling author Dan Buettner has gathered 100 recipes for longevity from the blue zones: the places around the world where people live the longest, healthiest lives.



Building on 15 years of dedicated research, Buettner has used his findings from the blue zones to launch the largest preventative health program in America, implementing 50 Blue Zones Projects in cities across the nation to help people live longer and healthier lives. Buettner’s initiatives have improved the health of more than 5 million Americans to date.



In his latest book, The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100 (published by National Geographic), Buettner traveled to blue zones — Ikaria, Greece; Loma Linda, California; Sardinia, Italy; Okinawa, Japan; and the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica — to discover the traditional diets that yield the world’s longest-living, healthiest people. His book blends recipes, cooking methods, ingredients and the science of how to live longer and better. The Blue Zones Kitchen offers recipes for every taste — Italian, Greek, Asian or Latin American. Delicious meals for healthy living such as fennel potpie from Ikaria — whose residents suffer the world’s lowest rates of dementia — to Sardinia, where the nine members of the Melis family have lived a collective 861 years — a Guinness World Record, eating the same exact lunch for nearly every day of their lives – minestrone.