Anchovies and Rosemary - Worth it to live longer?

[packman]

O.K. - another one of those wonder foods (in this case a combo) that will increase your life span. Study of a small Italian village of overly fat, cigarette smoker found the 600 inhabitants had a longer than normal life span.

YES - they are exposed to fresh air, fresh caught fish - anchovies - , hike around a lot and have a good gene pool. But a common thread back for centuries is the rosemary/anchovies in their daily diet.

Me, I love anchovies by mushing it on hard Italian slices with a tomato/olives mix and putting it into sauces. Rosemary on lamb and potatoes - wonderful stuff.

Wife leaves the room at the mention of anchovies. Tolerates rosemary.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anchovies-secret-longer-life_us_570d5288e4b0836057a2a9eb

[Major Nikon]

1. I have two rosemary plants in pots that I stopped watering a couple of years ago

They have managed to survive several of our relatively mild Texas winters and long periods of very hot days and no rain during the summers.

[progressoid]

2. I thought it was legumes.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15228991

[grasswire]

3. LOVE rosemary

Anchovies.......erg.

[elleng]

4. Probaby doesn't require the anchovies be 'our' canned/oiled/salted ones.

Thought I could live without rosemary, but neighbor grows it so maybe I'll borrow it more often than not.



Looks good to me!

The town is a part of "Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park", whose natural environment is made up of the "maquis shrubland" typical of the Mediterranean region.

It is a major tourist destination, especially during summer, because it has grown famous nationally for of its water quality, having earned the "Blue Flag beach" title[2] and the "Five Sails" of Legambiente, an Italian environmentalist association, for several years.

Culture[edit]
After World War II, Ernest Hemingway chose Acciaroli as a place to stay during trips to Italy.

[hobbit709]

5. I eat anchovies right out of the jar.

[closeupready]

6. Mashed anchovies makes a nice pasta dressing (w/olive oil and garlic) -

kind of a twist on 'oio e aio'. And I like them in other ways, but I have used them most commonly in this way.

Rosemary is STRONG - I do like it on steak sometimes, but I could live without it.

[packman]

7. Try rosemary skewers

take a few relatively straight rosemary branches from a well-established bush soak them in water for a few hours , remove leaves, put onions/par-boiled little potatoes/marinated lamb cubes on the rosemary skewers and grill on the BBQ - heavenly stuff.

[My Good Babushka]

8. I love both! nt

[whistler162]

9. Well Rosemarie is 92 years old

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjE1NTQ2MTEyN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTE5OTU2._V1_UY317_CR19,0,214,317_AL_.jpg

But I have no idea if she eats anchovies.

[Enrique]

10. rosemary anchovy smoothies!

i just bought a blender!

[So Far From Heaven]

11. Yeah, the new and improved bass-o-matic! (nt)

[mnhtnbb]

12. It's that view. Has nothing to do with anchovies and rosemary. It's the view.

[oldandhappy]

13. Rosemary and olive oil mixed in oven roasted veggies -- yum

[cwydro]

14. And black olives.

All that is good for us.

Being outside is pretty important too.