New Cookbook Delivers Recipes from Around the World for Better Aging

 Award-winning cookbook author and chef, Grace O, provides unique recipes that boost immunity,

improve skin, promote longevity, lower inflammation, and detoxify the body.

 

Chef and author Grace O has traveled the world in search of delicious, good-for-you foods. Her passion for discovering food treasures from the Blue Zones and elsewhere, where people live longer, healthier lives, is the driving force behind her new cookbook, Anti-Aging Dishes from Around the World. In her third cookbook, Grace O, founder of the ground-breaking healthy food website, FoodTrients.com, delivers all the hallmarks of her two previous award-winning cookbooks, and more.

 

In addition to 250 easy-to-make recipes using everyday favorites, exotic ingredients, and superfoods from around the world, Anti-Aging Dishes from Around the World includes healthy resources, guides, and tips for improving your lifespan and health-span. Grace’s global approach to her age-fighting recipes is to ramp up the flavor profiles of each dish to entice food lovers everywhere.

 

“My life has been devoted to my two passions – great food and wellness,” Grace says.  “I have traveled the world in search of foods that can help us age better, and I love discovering food treasures from the Blue Zones and places beyond, where people live longer, healthier lives. This is the driving force behind FoodTrients.com and this new cookbook.”

 

In Anti-Aging Dishes from Around the World, Grace takes classic recipes and gives them international twists with a few simple steps, creating very interesting meals. Grace uses superfoods and spice profiles from all over the world, including Africa, Asia, South America, the South Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S. Recipes range from Appetizers; Soups; Side Dishes; Vegetarian; Noodles and Sauces; Salads; to Meat; Seafood; Poultry; Flatbreads; Drinks; and Desserts. Some of the delicious anti-aging recipes found in the cookbook include: 

• Vietnamese Shrimp & Noodle Salad with Dipping Sauce

• California Hemp Seed Salad with Strawberries & Kale

• Greek Lemon Chicken Soup

• Peruvian Fresh Fish Ceviche

• Blue Zone Apple-Sage Cauliflower

• American Steakhouse Potatoes with Caramelized Onions

• Israeli Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Figs

• Polynesian Pot Roast

• Belizean Chicken Stew

• Lebanese Braised Lamb Shanks

• Hawaiian Avocado Chiffon Pie

• Turkish Apricot-Almond Cake

• California Persimmon Cookies

• Chinese Monk Fruit Spice Cookies

The book also features invaluable guides to Herbs and Spices from Around the Globe; Top 50 Foods for Longevity; Alternative Flours and Grains; The Healthiest Cooking Oils; Better-for-You Sweeteners; The Best Anti-Aging Teas; and the “New” Ancient Grains. Grace also includes her signature FoodTrients chart that tracks the health benefits of each recipe.

 

All of us are concerned with our health these days. If you want to know the top foods for aging better or the difference between prebiotics and probiotics; which cooking oils are best to use; which salts are healthier; the perfect teas to help you calm down, energize, or fight the flu, Anti-Aging Dishes from Around the World has the answers.

 

All proceeds from sales of this book will be donated to the Grace O Foundation, which supports educating the public about nutrition, working with other food-based non-profits, and participating in research that explores food and the diseases of aging.

 

About Grace O:

 Over a span of 30 years, Grace O has built an impressive record of business achievement, community building, philanthropy, and community service in California. Guided by her spirit of entrepreneurship and building on a model of generosity learned from her family, Grace has spent a lifetime helping people heal through food and medicine. When she moved from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1992, she began her impressive corporate ascent from employee to owner and operator of a number of skilled nursing facilities in California.

 

In 2011, Grace combined her entrepreneurial skills, her passion for the culinary arts, and her commitment to health by launching a new culinary brand, FoodTrients®, a non-profit website and cookbooks dedicated to the nutrients in foods that help prevent the diseases of aging. She is also the author of two other award-winning cookbooks—The Age GRACEfully Cookbook: The Power of FOODTRIENTS to Promote Health and Well-being for a Joyful and Sustainable Life and The Age Beautifully Cookbook: Easy and Exotic Longevity Secrets from Around the World.

 

To further understand and help prevent the diseases of aging, Grace launched the Grace O Foundation, which is dedicated to nutrition and longevity research, health education, food advocacy, and other charitable efforts. All proceeds from her cookbooks are contributed to the Foundation research and programs. To learn more visit www.FoodTrients.com.

 

Try this healthy and delicious recipe from Anti-Aging Dishes from Around the World:

 

RECIPE AND PHOTO MAY BE REPRINTED WITH THE FOLLOWING CREDIT:

  Recipe and Photo reprinted with permission from Anti-Aging Dishes from Around the World

  By Grace O / Skyhorse Publishing / August 2022

  

Book Review: Simple Green Smoothies

People know they need to eat their greens (and lots of fruit too) to maintain good health. Still, for many it's hard to do. They don't know what do do with all the veggies they buy, or don't even try to do anything with them, for fear of not having enough time to prepare healthy options.

Two mothers know the struggle, but they gave it a try anyway. Jen Hansard and Jadah Sellner went from exhausted and overwhelmed to empowered and energized after committing to the smoothie lifestyle. Their instagram posts detailing recipes soon became a book that looks to take the guesswork out of making them. 

Their book starts with each author giving readers some background into their lives before they started making smoothies, and details the changes they experience shortly afterward. They also give readers details about how to save some money while making smoothies, how to make save time, and gives some interesting, detailed recipes for various things. There are smoothies for energy, smoothies to help one recover post-workout, and recipes that will help one's skin as well.

One of the things I really liked was how they broke down various blenders, how to wash produce, and there is a listing of substitute ingredients for those who either can't find an ingredient, or can't have them. For example, I was dismayed to see how many smoothie recipes included mango (I'm allergic), and ingredients I hadn't seen around here. With their list, I can still get the benefits of the different recipes. 

I chose to use their basic rockstar recipe. I altered it slightly to add more liquid in, but they came out pretty nice. :) The first one I made included Kale, Coconut Milk, and Grapes. It was surprisingly refreshing and I barely tasted the Kale at all. 

The next one I tried was one made up of coconut water, broccoli, pears, and peaches. That one, I taste the green more, but it's still good. The best part is, even though the recipe technically serves two, my husband and I were able to actually get more than that out of the batch. If you're interested in trying a healthier diet, I definitely recommend this book. 

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Our Thoughts

I really enjoy trying new foods, especially if they're healthy for you and I've never heard anything but good stuff about curry. Except for how difficult it can be to make, so when this, basically step-by-step instruction guide and ingredients came up for review I felt like the pearly gates opened.

The book has a lot of great recipes, pictures included. The recipes are easily readable and you can understand them just fine. There are a lot of seasonings that comes in the steel container. It is really heavy, but durable and looks pristine in the kitchen. I had many of the ingredients before except for the garam masala and fenugreek. I know that fenugreek is very good for nursing mothers, and I am a nursing mother so I get a double bonus there!

In the recipe book there is a spiciness guide via hot pepper pictures that I thought was pretty cute and easy for kids to understand too. I had mine look through the book and pick out the "less spicy" items to try. This book was a real eye opener on how not difficult it is to cook curry foods. Honestly, most of the ingredients are things you'll already have in your household, it's the spices that make all the difference!

Our favorite meals out of Kitchen Curry Master are chicken curry, as it is so basic and simple to make but tastes delicious. Another one of my personal favorites is chicken and spinach curry. I admit, the picture wasn't as appetizing looking as I was hoping, but once you make it yourself and taste it, it's delicious. There are some very unique recipes in here that include cilantro and yogurt even! The spicy rice is a great addition to any dinner, not just for something Indian, but it's great paired with grilled chicken or steaks!

If you're ever curious about Indian cuisine, get this item. It will really help you dive in and not be scared!

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Reviewed by Jackie