Joyce Goldstein's Mediterranean the Beautiful Cookbook

Joyce Goldstein's Mediterranean the Beautiful Cookbook by Joyce Goldstein. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780681152694.

This cookbook has authentic recipes from the Mediterranean Lands. The Mediterranean area includes the Catalonia, Spain to Turkey to North Africa coast of Tunisia and Morocco. The cuisine is exotic yet fresh and simple. Renown restaurateur, chef and author Joyce Goldstein has collected over 200 authentic recipes that capture the variety and tradition of Mediterranean cuisine. These are dishes that have been prepared for centuries in the kitchens of Southern Spain, Provence, Southern Italy, Greece and the Balkans, Turkey, Isreael, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. A comprehensive glossary follows the recipes with basic techniques and definitions fundamental to Mediterranean cuisine. Every recipe is beautifully illustrated with full-color photography by photographer Peter Johnson and stylist Janice Baker. Breathtaking scenic photography and an enlightening text of the regions culinary history by scholar Ayla Algar round out this memorable portrait of the Mediterranean life.