Mediterranean cooking - Hardcover

Wolfert, Paula

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812906608 ISBN 13: 9780812906608

Publisher: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co, 1977

Synopsis

Renowned food writer Paula Wolfert here revises her classic cookbook in which she celebrates the sensuous pleasures of healthy Mediterranean cooking with more than 150 delicious dishes from this region, 75 of them brand new. The focus is on Turkey, Tunisia, the regions of Provence in southern France, and Apulia in southern Italy.

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About the Author

Paula Wolfert is an expert on Mediterranean food and the author of nine cookbooks, including The Food of Morocco, Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking, The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen, and The Cooking of Southwest France. Wolfert has won the James Beard Award, the Julia Child Award, the M. F. K. Fisher Award, and the Tastemaker Award, and was a finalist for the André Simon Award. A regular columnist for Food & Wine, Wolfert lives in Sonoma, California.

From Publishers Weekly

In this revision of her 1977 volume of the same name, Wolfert (The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean) has replaced many of the richer dishes of that book with 75 new recipes that represent "some of the best of what the Mediterranean has to offer in terms of health as well as taste." The 150 recipes here are also less demanding, epitomizing a culinary simplicity that highlights the flavor of fresh ingredients. Organized around main ingredients rather than courses or geographical borders, the chapters sport such titles as "Garlic and Oil" and "Chick Peas, Lentils and Beans." Wolfert pays particular attention to the cooking traditions and specialties of the Italian region of Apulia, of Spain's Andalusia, of Provence, Turkey and, in particular, Tunisia. The latter, in which hot red peppers feature more emphatically than in dishes from neighboring areas, includes recipes for the characteristic spice mixture called tabil, and Gamber Sghir, grilled shrimp accompanied by a spicy tomato-based sauce. More specialized than Joyce Goldstein's Mediterranean: The Beautiful Cookbook, just out from Collins Publishers San Francisco (PW, August 29), Wolfert's revised collection will appeal to adventurous home cooks already familiar with the region's fare.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812906608
• ISBN 13: 9780812906608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368