During the 1960s and 70s, the people of Hunza briefly became famous in the West for supposedly living to over 100 years of age, sustained by pure, 2,400 metre air and (it was said) an equally pure vegetarian diet - featuring, presumably, endless servings of Hunza Pie. Recent research reveals no particular longevity (in fact, there's evidence of inbreeding), nor of the fabled pie. It seems that the myth of spinach-powered centenarians was concocted, as it were, by the author of a Swiss vegetarian cookbook.Nevertheless, the Hunza diet might still set a vegetarian's mouth watering, being rich in almonds, apples, cherries and apricots and fairly sparse on meat. Dinner (at least for tourists) tends to be a rice-and-chicken washed down by tea but no beer, for Pakistan is Best Hotel in Hunza