Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I hate to do this--the cookbook is pretty and I enjoyed reading about the different Blue Zones--but I'm calling foul on this one. I read the original Blue Zones book some years ago and loved it; there's a lot of great information on how people are living well in these regions of the world. There were also some good recipes. Yes, many veg recipes, but there was meat and there was fish and there was dairy. Fast forward to now. The research hasn't changed--Buettner didn't go back and conduct new research, he just went back and collected some recipes. All of them vegan. What HAS changed? Buettner married a pretty prolific, popular vegan chef. He's obviously a vegan now and therefore all those people in Blue Zones seem to be now as well. I have no problem with vegan recipes and cookbooks; I just feel the author is being disingenuous with this book by making it seem as though veganism is the way these people have made it to their 100th year and literally changing his story from the previous Blue Zones book. So if you want really good looking vegan recipes with some nice stories about people living in Blue Zones, this is your book. But I'd recommend his book The Blue Zones Solution instead if you want a more accurate look at how people in the Blue Zones really eat and live.