Mediterranean

This collection of more than 100 favourite recipes from the acclaimed restaurant Cioppino's Mediterranean Grill highlights fresh ingredients and the cucina natural style of cooking. From Italian classics such as risotto and pasta to New World-inspired fish and seafood dishes, updated versions of much-loved desserts and an extensive section of stock …

The healthful virtues of olive oil, a key component of the Mediterranean diet, have becomewell-known in recent years; its monounsaturatedfats and antioxidants are beneficial in preventingheart disease by controlling LDL ("bad") cholesterollevels while simultaneously raising HDL("good") cholesterol levels.

Helen Koutalianos has preached the gospel of …

For the Corsis, owners of Vancouver's popular Quattro restaurants, the most important things in life are sharing simple meals with friends, cooking with fresh ingredients, drinking joyously, and living with abbondanza (Italian for abundance and a passion for life). In their first cookbook, Mangia with Quattro, abbondanza is the most important ingre …

Simply Mediterranean Cooking reveals to the reader where the world's best food can be found - from the Mediterranean. And once you've sampled the extraordinary dishes in this book, you'll find it impossible to disagree.