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The Essential Mediterranean: How Regional Cooks Transform Key Ingredients Into the World's Favorite Cuisines

✍️ Harmon Jenkins, Nancy
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🏛 William Morrow & Company 📅 2003 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9780060196516
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📝 Description: The Essential Mediterranean: How Regional Cooks Transform Key Ingredients Into the World's Favorite Cuisines

Filled with folklore, anecdotes, and 120 recipes, this cookbook is a Mediterranean journey devoted to the essential ingredients that make the cuisine so healthy and the culture so vibrant. 20 line drawings.

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Readers expecting a comprehensive academic study of Mediterranean history will be disappointed; this is strictly a practical collection aimed at casual enthusiasts. It does not suit serious food historians or those requiring precise nutritional data. The reliance on 'essential ingredients' suggests a broad, perhaps shallow, approach rather than deep regional expertise. However, for a light, engaging introduction to the subject matter with its accompanying 20 line drawings, it serves as an adequate, if unambitious, entry point into the genre.
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Eatbook Family editorial team

Readers expecting a comprehensive academic study of Mediterranean history will be disappointed; this is strictly a practical collection aimed at casual enthusiasts. It does not suit serious food historians or those requiring precise nutritional data. The reliance on 'essential ingredients' suggests a broad, perhaps shallow, approach rather than deep regional expertise. However, for a light, engaging introduction to the subject matter with its accompanying 20 line drawings, it serves as an adequate, if unambitious, entry point into the genre.

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