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The Longevity Kitchen by Rebecca Katz and Mat Edelson

The authors of The Cancer Fighting Kitchen return with a book of powerful ingredients and recipes to help fight the aging process, but also provides ingredients specific for the health and support of our bodies’ systems and organs.  A list of questions helps readers discover their “Culinary GPS” to guide them through the recipes that might be most beneficial to them.  Several pages on FASS (fat, acid, salt and sweet) provide good choices to add each of these important flavors and ingredients to cooking and expands to include Umami that adds a certain je nais se quois to foods along with spicy flavors: a short chart providing six major cuisines and the spices and herbs that are the trademark flavors for each.  Each recipe, from Costa Rican Black Bean Soup with Sweet Potato to Strawberry, Fennel and Arugula Salad to protein-building dishes such as Black Cod with Miso-Ginger Glaze and Good Mood Sardines starts with a few words about the ingredients and what makes them so healthful and the specific health issues the dish might be helpful for.  And entire chapter lists foods and their health properties and then a list of symptoms (Stress Reducers, Immune Boosters, etc.) list the recipes that will support health and wellness.  All the recipes are accessible, the ingredients readily available and the photos delicious looking making this a cookbook that cooks will reach for time and time again.  A comprehensive list of references in the back of the book provide additional sources if readers want to explore certain topics in more depth than in these pages.

FTC Disclaimer: I received this book from the Blogging for Books program in exchange for this review.