I adore every recipe that I have tried from this book!
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Don't miss the hummus recipe! It's a lower fat, better tasting version of the usual Middle Eastern fare--imagine that! I think that recipe alone is worth the price of the book!
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A Hit-and-Miss Introduction to Mediterranean Cuisine
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This was the only cookbook I took with me on an extended trip to Greece, and in some respects it was a good choice. I found tons of recipes here for the types of wonderful ingredients I found in the open-air markets there, and many of the dishes were excellent--the pizza dough alone is worth taking a look at Mediterranean Light for, not to mention the Turkish style cornbread. Many of the dishes, however, have proved disappointing in practice. Her Moroccan-style shrimp with cumin overwhelmed the delicate shrimp with too-heavy spicing, a real let-down after all the fussing with shrimp-shell stock this recipe required. Other dishes required too much fussing for very simple results--notably a chicken soup requiring three days of preparation! Others required such shortcuts or compromises that they were guaranteed disappointments; instead of stewing a chicken with vegetables and seasonings for her avgolemeno, Shulman dumps some eggs and lemon into a pre-cooked broth. The good dishes here, like a lovely low-fat hummus which I make regularly, are very good indeed; but the reader should be aware that many recipes in this collection will not live up to their promise on the page.
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Excellent resource for Mediterranean cooking!
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This cookbook holds the number one place of all of my cookbooks! It is great reference for Mediterranean cooking. It is also great to just sit and read! The Pasta Fagioli and the Chicken Kebabs are 'must tries.' Martha Rose Schulman uses creative combinations for new dishes and healthy alternatives for classic Mediterranean dishes. Pictures could make it even better, but I think that would make it even harder to choose which dish to try next!
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