Introduce a variety of foods. Your kids may have a natural inclination toward peas and carrots but might hate broccoli and green beans. Serve small amounts of a half dozen vegetables at a time, a sort of Blue Zones succotash, and see which ones your kids like the best. Once you know that, you can try preparing those new favorites in different ways. How you can do it for adults: • Discover what you like. Take a cue from the notes above on how kids acquire tastes and try some new vegetables when you’re hungry—as an appetizer before dinner, for example. • Learn some new cooking skills. You’re not going to eat vegetables unless you know how to prepare them in appealing ways. Recipes to start with—sure winners, as far as I am concerned—are Ikarian Stew, Sardinian minestrone from the Melis family (this page), and Panchita’s Gallo Pinto. We’ve taste tested these recipes as we have been doing Blue Zones community projects across the country, and we’ve found they appeal to thousands of Americans. The ingredients are cheap, the instructions are simple, and the results are delicious. • Take a vegetarian cooking class. • Host a Blue Zones potluck. Share the Blue Zones food rules and the list of ten Super Blue Foods with a group of your friends. Ask everyone to bring a dish featuring one or some of those foods. You can all bring your culinary talents into play, trying new plant-based foods, and also use them to strengthen your social network—a key goal of those who want to nudge their lives in the Blue Zones direction.