Name: COOKING CLASS | Eat, Gather Live: Lessons from the World's Blue Zones
Start: 2026-04-30T18:00:00-04:00
Location: HER Kitchen

COOKING CLASS | Eat, Gather Live: Lessons from the World's Blue Zones

This cooking class brings the world’s longest-living food habits home to Buffalo. Join Sally of Eat Well Buffalo — after spending time in three of the world’s blue zones, Sally experienced firsthand how these communities eat, gather, and live.
In this class, she will be sharing what she is bringing back, and how those ideas can fit into everyday life here in Buffalo: simple blue zones principles—mostly plants, beans every day, healthy fats, and shared meals—without giving up Buffalo comfort food.
Sally will prepare three affordable, plant-forward dishes you’ll actually use. Tasting, conversation, and practical take-home tools. No perfection required—just real food, shared often, for a healthier, happier life.
By the end of the evening, you won’t just leave with recipes, but a new way of thinking about your table. Longevity isn’t about just living longer — it’s about living better together.
In this class, you will:
- Understand 5 Blue Zone food habits
- Experience 3 simple, affordable, plant-forward dishes
- Learn Buffalo-specific swaps
- Leave with recipes to recreate in your own kitchen
MENU
- Purple Sweet Potato Hummus
- Tuscan White Beans with Garlic, Greens & Olive Oil
- Fruity Dark Chocolate Almond Bark
INSTRUCTOR: Sally Gower of Eat Well Buffalo
COST: $50
STYLE: Demonstration with Small Bites
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ABOUT SALLY....
Our philosophy is simple- if you Eat Well, you will Be Well.
Food is powerful, and we can create wellness and prevent disease by making smart food choices. As our parents always told us, “You are what you eat”.
Sally, the mastermind behind Eat Well Buffalo has journeyed from a career in the pharmaceutical industry to publishing Buffalo Natural Awakenings, always truly believing food can be very powerful and life changing. She received a Bachelor of Science and a Masters in Business Administration with a focus in marketing from the University at Buffalo.
More recently, Sally has completed the following:
Sally attended the Institute of Integrative Nutrition to earn her certified health coach title.
Sally completed the coursework through Cornell to receive her plant-based nutrition certification.
Sally attended the Culinary Intensive Workshop through the prestigious Conscious Gourmet Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In 2018, Sally was selected to attend the Physician’s Committee For Responsible Medicine initiative in Washington, DC to become a certified Food For Life Educator.
In 2020, Sally became Nutritious Life Certified by completing the coursework at The Nutritious Life Studio by Keri Glassman
Sally has always been a firm believer that we need to take responsibility for our own health as well as being a positive contributor to our WNY community. Our emphasis and direction should be on the prevention of disease and taking those steps to eat healthy (plant based, whole foods as much as possible), incorporating exercise into our daily lives, practicing mindfulness and meditation, as well as being committed to recycling, sustainability and making a difference in this wonderful community in which we live.
Eat Well Buffalo offers insight on how to live a simple and healthy life. Eat Well Buffalo is a practical approach to healthy nutrition, in addition to being easy and convenient and yet not costing a fortune. Both minimizing the number of ingredients and attempting to use mostly on-hand items will allow a more practical and less-complicated approach to some of the other more complex alternatives.