- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Pavilion Books; New edition edition (4 Oct 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1862054819
- ISBN-13: 978-1862054813
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 19.2 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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As more and more people search for a healthy lifestyle and diet they are dicovering the refreshingly simple cuisine of the Mediterranean. From her extensive travels, Claudia Roden had collected over 150 of her favourite recipes, each one capturing the essential qualities of the region.
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Roden vividly communicates the pleasure of cooking and eating the Mediterranean way. The book features 150 recipes, collected in the course of extensive travels in France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Syria and the Lebanon.
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11 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is one of the best vegetarian (mainly) books I have looked at lately. I haven't been cooking verymuch and this made we want to give a dinner party. In cookbooks, photographs are very important tome and the ones in this book are wonderful. I would give it an A+/
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've bought this book after having been given Claudia Roden's Book of Jewsish cooking, which I enjoyed very much. That book was not just full of recipes, but it also gave some background stories about the various aspects and geographical foundations of recipes.
This book of mediterraneon cooking is a compilation of recipes from northern Africa, Lebanon and southern mediterranean. Some of them are truly magnificent, others however require special ingredients, that are not always so easily available. I live in Surrey and don't have ethnic shops or delicatessen available. Nevertheless, I have cooked many recipes from this book and have to say, they turned out the way described or shown on pictures. Especially some of the desserts are lovely and not too time consuming to prepare.
One word of caution - the recipes are rarely full menues, i.e. one would need another dish or if you're not vegetarian like me, maybe some meat at the side. My husband eats a lot of food, so he is not satisfied by one dish. However, it does give me some ideas for alternatives to staple vegatarian food and I can therefore recommend this book to vegetarians like me, who also eat seafood.
This book of mediterraneon cooking is a compilation of recipes from northern Africa, Lebanon and southern mediterranean. Some of them are truly magnificent, others however require special ingredients, that are not always so easily available. I live in Surrey and don't have ethnic shops or delicatessen available. Nevertheless, I have cooked many recipes from this book and have to say, they turned out the way described or shown on pictures. Especially some of the desserts are lovely and not too time consuming to prepare.
One word of caution - the recipes are rarely full menues, i.e. one would need another dish or if you're not vegetarian like me, maybe some meat at the side. My husband eats a lot of food, so he is not satisfied by one dish. However, it does give me some ideas for alternatives to staple vegatarian food and I can therefore recommend this book to vegetarians like me, who also eat seafood.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Super cookbook
7 Aug 2002
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This is my third cookbook by this author. _The Food of Italy_ is very good, and I have several time-worn favorites in _A New Book of Middle Eastern Food_. But since getting these two, my daughter and I stopped eating meat, and we were looking for a bit of culinary inspiration. Well, we have it in _Invitation_. My daughter was especially thrilled since the book is geared to exactly what we eat: veggies and seafood. The recipes are elegant, creative, uncommon, but completely doable. (If only we could get zucchini here in Taiwan!) They tend toward the light side - we avoid stodgy food when we can - using fresh ingredients artistically. This book had me daydreaming of home entertaining again, the kind with style and flair. Some of the recipes that grabbed my attention: Lentil and Spinach Salad, Spicy Walnut Paste, Brown Lentils and Rice with Caramelized Onions, Couscous with Roast Vegetables, Eggplant Omelet, Salsa Verde, Fish Soup with Saffron and Cream. We try to avoid sweets, but there is a seductive photo of Sauteed Fruit with Almond Custard that sends out a siren call every time I open to that page (201, if you want to stop there first). The book includes expertly composed photographs, has generous margins and comfortable type, and is overall a high-quality volume as regards design, paper, printing, and binding. If any of this strikes a chord with you, this book should be a winner for you, too.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Recipes, appetizing photos, reader friendly
10 April 1998
Format:Hardcover
This is one of the best vegetarian (mainly) books I have looked at lately. I haven't been cooking verymuch and this made we want to give a dinner party. In cookbooks, photographs are very important tome and the ones in this book are wonderful. I would give it an A+/
14 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Very good but not completely Mediterranean
7 Oct 1999
Format:Hardcover
The book written by Ms. Roden is a very good book containing interesting recipes, but I do not consider it as Mediterranean. It is more North African. Olive oil, garlic and fish are the three thingns that symbolyse the region. They lack in the book. I hope that they will appear in the next printings. If needed; I am ready to assist with recipes.
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