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Mediterranean Diet Cookbook

By Nancy Harmon Jenkins

Chances are excellent that you could cook out of The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for the rest of your life and never feel bored. How does Grilled Vegetables Marinated with Oil and Vinegar sound? Or Moroccan Carrot Salad with Orange and Lemon Juice? Or Catalan Soup of White Beans and Clams? Or Spaghettini with Walnut Sauce? Or Lebanese Fish Baked in a Tomato-Cilantro Sauce? Or Tuscan Grilled Chicken?

You could use this book as the basis for your diet for the rest of your life and forget all about cholesterol, salt, fat, calories, and all those other buzz words that make us confused. Nancy Harmon Jenkins is here to provide a delicious blueprint for anyone who feels their basic diet needs a change, but isn't sure which way to turn.

Jenkins relishes tradition and place and the people who bring it all alive and give it flavor. She circles the Mediterranean, collecting the classic recipes that fall within the defined parameters of the Mediterranean Diet (as recognized by the World Health Organization): "plentiful fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains; olive oil as the principal fat; lean red meat only a few times a month; low to moderate consumption of other foods from animal sources, such as dairy products, fish, and poultry; and moderate consumption of wine." Then she shows you how to make it all happen in our life.

Mediterranean diet is just another way of saying longer, happier lives with low levels of heart disease. The statistics back it up. The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook is another way of saying delicious.
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