Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking—How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age by Caroline Paul
Paul is also the author of The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure, so it’s not a stretch to say this “tough broad,” who’s 60, is out there. Out there paragliding, surfing, skateboarding and, in this inspiring book, encouraging women to embrace the exhilaration and vitality that come with an adventurous life. “At some age … many women start believing they can’t, or shouldn’t be out there,” she writes, but “the real peril for us as we age is a sedentary life that lacks pizzazz and challenge.” (March 5)
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Tasty veggies and Robert Downey Jr.’s take on cool foods
If meatless dining appeals to you — whether it’s for every meal or a few nights a week — check out Cara Mangini’s new cookbook, The Vegetable Eater: The New Playbook for Cooking Vegetarian (March 19). Mangini, author of the James Beard Award finalist The Vegetable Butcher, offers seasonal variations on the 100 recipes in her new collection. I’ve already tried a few, and they’re winners, including Butternut and Kale Coconut-Curry Soup. Sesame-Peanut Noodles with Crunchy Vegetables and Garlic-Scallion Chili Oil is next.
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And environmentally conscious diners (and fans of Iron Man) may already be perusing actor Robert Downey Jr.’s New York Times bestseller Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time, coauthored with climate-writer Thomas Kostigen. A passion project for the pair, the book offers advice on choosing sustainable foods that are good for the climate and the Earth. That includes cutting out animal products as much as possible, consuming less food in general and avoiding food waste, says Downey, 58, who writes that he’s a pescatarian. Although there are also some two dozen recipes, such as an “avocado and refried bean burrito-style wrap,” the meat of the book is in the message.
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A legend’s “lost novel”
Turns out that when Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author of the 1967 classic One Hundred Years of Solitude, passed away 10 years ago, he left behind a novel, which will be published in English by Knopf on March 12. Titled Until August, its release is a bit controversial: Márquez, who wrote it while living with dementia, didn’t want it made public. But his sons, Rodrigo García and Gonzalo García Barcha, have decided it should be shared with the world, according to Viking, which describes it as “constantly surprising, joyously sensual,” and “a profound meditation on freedom, regret, self-transformation, and the mysteries of love.” Its focus is a woman who spends one night on a Caribbean island every year, taking a new lover each time.
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