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Mediterranean Vegetarian Cooking | 
 enlarge | Author: Paola Gavin
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 192166
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1844543412
EAN: 9781844543410
ASIN: 1844543412
Publication Date: March 15, 2007
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Got it's first use on the day I recieved it January 13, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a great place to start with mediterranean cookery. The recipes are easy to follow and sound delicious. The food is put into a social and historical context too. I immediately spotted the recipe for drunken figs (substituting dried figs for fresh and port for brandy) to make for a party I was attending the day I got the book. They were delicious and went down very well with my friends. You will be well rewarded by this book - it has prompted me to buy Paola Gavin's other cookbooks too.
Simple, fresh ingredients well-prepared August 27, 2006
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Really, really love this book! As well as the Mediterranean countries you'd expect it also draws from the cuisine of lesser-known places such as Croatia and Northern Africa, and the introduction includes a few pages on the food traditions of each country. Every recipe not only sounds delicious but is often incredibly simple to make; most of them are very vegetable-based. Flicking through the recipes you start to understand the secret of Mediterranean food - simple, fresh ingredients well-prepared. And it is so unbelievably satisfying to cook this way - making the most of what you have and ending up with a delicious and very nutritious meal. And the Mediterranean diet is very well-suited to a vegetarian regime as meat has often been scarce in these countries while vegetables and pulses have been abundant; these well-balanced dishes are no poor substitute for a meat equivalent but what people have been working away at and happily eating for centuries! There are lots of fantastic desserts too - this is a cookbook you can really live by every day rather than a coffe-table novelty.
The only complaints I have are that: a) There are no illustrations of the food anywhere (although, to be fair, you can often tell what it is supposed to look like just by reading the ingredients when it is a vegetable dish), and b) Quite annoying this one - as it is an American book, you have to wade through confusing imperial measurements and 'cups' of things, as well as 'eggplants' and 'zucchinis' etc., so it's best if you have a scale with imperial on, or a conversion guide.
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