Claudia Roden's Invitation to Mediterranean Cooking: 150 Vegetarian and Seafood Dishes

by Claudia Roden

Book Overview

As more and more people adopt a healthy lifestyle and diet, they are discovering the refreshingly simple cuisine of the Mediterranean. Claudia Roden is one of the culinary world's greatest experts on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857933613
• ISBN13: 9781857933611
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Pavilion Books
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Super cookbook

This is my third cookbook by this author. _The Food of Italy_ is very good, and I have several time-worn favorites in _A New Book of Middle Eastern Food_. But since getting these two, my daughter and I stopped eating meat, and we were looking for a bit of culinary inspiration. Well, we have it in _Invitation_. My daughter was especially thrilled since the book is geared to exactly what we eat: veggies and seafood. The recipes are elegant, creative, uncommon, but completely doable. (If only we could get zucchini here in Taiwan!) They tend toward the light side - we avoid stodgy food when we can - using fresh ingredients artistically. This book had me daydreaming of home entertaining again, the kind with style and flair. Some of the recipes that grabbed my attention: Lentil and Spinach Salad, Spicy Walnut Paste, Brown Lentils and Rice with Caramelized Onions, Couscous with Roast Vegetables, Eggplant Omelet, Salsa Verde, Fish Soup with Saffron and Cream. We try to avoid sweets, but there is a seductive photo of Sauteed Fruit with Almond Custard that sends out a siren call every time I open to that page (201, if you want to stop there first). The book includes expertly composed photographs, has generous margins and comfortable type, and is overall a high-quality volume as regards design, paper, printing, and binding. If any of this strikes a chord with you, this book should be a winner for you, too.

Excellent Recipes, appetizing photos, reader friendly

This is one of the best vegetarian (mainly) books I have looked at lately. I haven't been cooking verymuch and this made we want to give a dinner party. In cookbooks, photographs are very important tome and the ones in this book are wonderful. I would give it an A+/