Stuffed full of appetizing recipes bursting with sunshine, covering a route from Corsica over to Sicily and then into Turkey and across to Morocco, this is as much a travelogue as a cookery book.
The legendary Mr. Stein needs no introduction to the British expat, as a renowned chef, a champion of the fruits of the sea in Britain and France; he seems equally at home these days, as a television presenter, as he is in the kitchen.
This volume seeks out the best foods available around the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It contains around 100 easy recipes highlighting each region’s finest. There is a huge diversity of flavours and there is a story to accompany each page.The recipes are easily followed with delectable photographs alongside and cooks of all abilities will enjoy making, and indeed eating, these dishes!
This book will give you an appetite for exploration as well as for the hearty food. It is divided by types of dish and ingredients across the region. Covering vegetarian dishes, stews and fabulous desserts, there is something for every taste, savoury or sweet. For example there is a mouth-watering recipe for Kleftiko in one chapter and a simple, but robust recipe for oven baked summer vegetables from southern Corfu on the next. The chapter on Morocco gives us a tender carrot salad and a juicy pomegranate and orange platter.
In the dessert section there are rich pastries and all sorts in between from a new way with strawberries to the traditional zabaglione. Mediterranean Escapes is a fascinating journey into a rich and varied culinary heritage. With the warmer weather approaching this Easter and all the ingredients readily available in this, our own little corner of the Algarve, what are you waiting for?
This review was supplied by Wendy Davies
Mediterranean Escapes is available in hardback Priced €30.
