Gray's Academy

In Spain many of the people smoke and drinking is okay at 11 in the morning if that makes you happy. Here’s what else they do….life long and relatively healthy lives.

Why? First, the diet is based on regional and fresh ingredients. None of them are processed beyond what needs to happen to make the food safe to eat. Second, and more important, in my worthless opinion, is the social culture. If you life here, your life happens outside the walls of your home.

Social connection, kindness, mutual respect: These are all assumptions you can safely make about the basque region of Spain.