Sublime

As he saw it, the people of the Mediterranean built their diets around plant foods and seafood—vegetables, legumes, fish, olive oil, grains, and nuts.

A can of wild sardines in extra-virgin olive oil (personal favorite!)

I once read a gloomy prescription written by the Greek physician Hippocrates: “Death sits in the bowels; a bad digestion is the root of all evil.” If this is true, I have to assume that the long-lived Provençal bowel is a remarkably efficient item of equipment which, one can logically assume, is a direct result of what it has to deal with on a dail

DANIEL REID, AUTHOR OF THE TAO OF HEALTH, SEX, AND LONGEVITY AND THE TAO OF DETOX

Arugula-Walnut Pesto

Dr. James Fries, a professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine.