Eating for Longevity: How to Cook the Blue Zones Way (5-Week Series)
January 17, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
$90.00 – $180.00
Want to live to 100? Certain communities around the world, dubbed Blue Zones by Dan Buettner at National Geographic, may have the key. The largest populations of centenarians live in Sardinia, Italy; Okinawa, Japan; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California, and their longevity seems to be tied to a variety of common healthy behaviors, including (if not especially) how they eat, which is a mostly plant-based diet. In this 5-week cooking demonstration series, led by culinary coach Alison Wexler, you will learn about a different Blue Zone each week and how to cook plant-based dishes from that region. Back by popular demand, this series is a full repeat of the course Alison taught at Common Market last January.
Alison Wexler is a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), a certified Wellcoaches Health & Well-being Coach (CHWC), and a CHEF-trained culinary coach. She offers one-on-one and group health and wellness coaching, as well as plant-based cooking demonstrations, classes, and talks through her one-woman business, Sand Garden Health & Wellness Coaching, based here in Frederick.
Optional pre-reading and/or viewing for this series
- Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, 2d ed. National Geographic, 2012.
- Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones Kitchen. National Geographic, 2019.
- “Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones,” 4 episodes on Netflix, 2023.
This class will meet Fridays 12:00pm – 1:15pm, January 17 – February 14, 2025.
