Full name: Mediterranean: The Beautiful Cookbook: Authentic Recipes from the Mediterranean Lands

Author: Joyce Goldstein Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Cookbooks Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780002553704 0002553708

The pictures are lovely and the culinary histories of each country are nice. There appear to be many good recipes but it's hard to cover such a wide variety of county's cuisines well. Again, the author repeatedly praises the contributions of the one group over every other. He repeatedly down plays the native ingredients as well as dismissing the important changes the addition of ingredients from the New World (the Americas) had on Mediterranean cuisine. I find that very frustrating, and if I were a native of some of these countries I would find some of his comments/descriptions offensive. Similar books: The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen by Paula Wolfert The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean by Paula Wolfert Mediterranean Cooking by Paula Wolfert James Beard's Theory & Practice of Good Cooking by James Beard A New Way to Cook by Sally Schneider The James Beard Cookbook by James Beard New York Times Natural Foods Cookbook by Jean Hewitt Cover & Bake by Cook's Illustrated Magazine Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics by Ina Garten The Dean and DeLuca Cookbook by David Rosengarten Fast Food My Way by Jacques Pepin The Olives Table by Todd English From Julia Child's Kitchen by Julia Child U.S.A. Cookbook by Sheila Lukins Barefoot Contessa Family Style by Ina Garten