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Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: A Delicious Alternative for Lifelong Health
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Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Bantam June 1, 1994
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553096087
ISBN-13: 978-0553096088
Product Dimensions:
10.1 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
Product Review
Chances are excellent that you could cook out of The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for the rest of your life and never feel the slightest tinge of boredom. How does Moroccan Carrot Salad with Orange and Lemon Juice sound? Or Catalan Soup of White Beans and Clams? Or Lebanese Fish Baked in a Tomato-Cilantro Sauce?
Mediterranean cooking is refreshingly low in salt, fat, and starch, relying instead on fresh fruits, vegetables, fish, and poultry. Nancy Harmon Jenkins provides a delicious alternative for anyone who feels their basic diet needs a change, but isn't sure which way to turn. Jenkins relishes tradition and place, and the vibrant people who bring this style of cooking alive. She circles the Mediterranean, collecting the classic recipes that fall within the defined parameters of the Mediterranean diet (as recognized by the World Health Organization): "plentiful fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains; olive oil as the principal fat; lean red meat only a few times a month; low to moderate consumption of other foods from animal sources, such as dairy products, fish and poultry; and moderate consumption of wine." Simplicity is the key to the Mediterranean diet--simple ingredients and stress-free preparation and cooking. This is more than a cookbook--it is a blueprint for healthier living. --Schuyler Ingle
From Publishers Weekly
Though many authors have tackled the healthful recipes of the Mediterranean, Jenkins is not simply following a fad. She brings her understanding of the culture, gained through years of living and working in the region, to the task of writing a comprehensive cookbook. Jenkins gives practical advice on how to gradually implement the Mediterranean diet at home, urging us to eat more fruits, grains and vegetables, reduce meat and fat intake, cook with olive oil instead of butter, serve plain bread at every meal to increase consumption of carbohydrates, and--perhaps hardest of all--to set aside time for meals every day, "building a sense of food as a fundamentally communal, shared experience." Jenkins's recipes, though not always inventive, are faithful to the originals and demonstrate her appreciation for the vagaries of cooking well with fresh foodstuffs that may not always yield the same measures. She unfolds the common threads of cuisine that unite the Mediterranean, acknowledging regional variations that lend piquancy.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader Reviews
I am going to do something I rarely do, and criticize a cookbook on style rather than content. I had to return this book because I simply couldn't stand the author's smug, self-satisfied editorializing. I love "local color" about recipes, but I don't like writers who think the point of local color is to make themselves look cool and sophisticated. I originally bought the book for my father, whose doctor has recommended that he adopt the "Mediterranean" diet. However this cookbook would not be much use to someone who wasn't already an accomplished cook with a good idea of what a Mediterranean diet looks like. The cookbook doesn't particularly address how one builds a diet up out of a collection of recipes. It reads as if the health aspect of the book was tacked onto what is, from the recipe point of view, a fairly conventional cookbook. The recipes looked fine, but there are so many wonderful Mediterranean cookbooks, written by authors whose personalities are a lot more inviting. I will second another reviewer's praise of Sonia Uvezian's very personal book on Lebanese cooking. Despite being a more narrowly focused book, or perhaps because of it, the reader gets a much better idea not just of how to make a few Lebanese dishes, but of the overall structure of the Lebanese diet.
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