Ok, so maybe it’s my Italian roots, or that I’m overly excited when a qualified doctor tells me a reasonable amount of coffee each day is actually GOOD for me, but I’m really into this cookbook. The very impressive duo, Dr. Giovanni Campanile ( a functional cardiologist ) and Sandra Cammarata ( a psychiatrist and chef ) share some great simple recipes and dietary guidelines as well as reminders to breath, disconnect from our devices in a ritualistic manner (ie an hour or two before bed), and have a wee bit of dark chocolate! Which I always consider food for the Soul.

Our friend and internationally recognized actor, Keith Carradine, enjoys the delicious benefits of The Sicilian Secret Diet Plan to maintain his path to well being and improved healthspan.

It is an engaging history of the massive cultural migrations that swept over the island of Sicily bringing with them the diversity of food and food preparation we know today. This Sicilian cornucopia is, in fact, a direct result of 5,000 years of food enrichment, as nourishment, as a bringer of health and long-sought longevity. The Sicilian island was ready-made for this, positioned perfectly in the Mediterranean Sea amidst the rise and fall of empires and exotic influences from the entire region. The military and culinary crosscurrents from Italy, Greece, the Middle East, Africa, Spain and France swept up on the island’s shores bringing a mélange of diversity and nutritional experiments. Over the centuries, these multi-cultural recipes, cooking techniques, plants, and spices distilled into what the Dr.s Campanile cogently argue became the most balanced, salubrious, longevityinducing palette available for our tables and our bodies today. Not only an engaging read but a fact-filled overview of the intricate interconnection between food and our well being, this book will open a vision far beyond diet, far beyond weight loss, to the essence of wellness itself.