Picks and Pans Review: Learning from Our Elders

By CLARISSA CRUZ, JOANNA POWELL, BETH PERRY

UPDATED 10/06/2008 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 10/06/2008 at 01:00 AM EDT

"Society is obsessed with youth," notes photographer Andrew Zuckerman in Wisdom, his collection of portraits and interviews with well-known figures over age 65. "I've never understood that ... [Older people] have all the secrets." Some they shared: