The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: Recipes from the Island of Crete for Vitality, Health, and Longevity
By Jacques Fricker (Author), Dominque Laty (Author), Pierre Hussenot (Photographer), Pierre Cabannes (Photographer)
The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook reveals a collection of Mediterranean recipes, rich in flavour and healthy antioxidants, and low in saturated fats and cholesterol combined with the significant nutritional benefits and boundless culinary delights of the healthy cuisine enjoyed for centuries on the island of Crete.
The traditional Crete diet seamlessly combines good nutrition with extraordinary gastronomic pleasure. Physician and nutrition specialist Jacques Fricker teams up with chef and health writer Dominique Laty to explain the benefits of the Mediterranean Diet and the subtle alchemy it achieves through balanced nutrition and a healthy lifestyle.
The premise of the Mediterranean Diet as always been in line with my own philosophy: the combination of a healthy diet and enjoyable lifestyle. The Cretan principles are simple and unchanging. It is based around seasoning and cooking in olive oil, drinking loads of water, eating in moderation and having a jolly good time.
The Cretans indulge in having red wine several times a week and enjoy red lean meat only 3 to 4 times a month. They also eat small amounts of fried foods, cakes, pastries and chocolates. Pure delight!!
In the Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, you are treated to 70 tantalizing array of recipes inspired by the cuisine of Crete that combine ease in preparation with good nutrition and unalloyed delight to the senses. The recipe ranges from featuring richly diverse harvest pleasures for the impatient (Mediterranean Diet Cooking class 101) to the sublimely done Veal Escalope with Pine Nuts and Roasted Tomatoes.
The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook treats readers to a visual feast as well thanks to the lavish photography of international acclaim for their photographers, Pierre Hussenot and Pierre Cabannes.
About the Author
Dominique Laty is a specialist on the relationship between health and nutrition, as well as a highly regarded chef. She is the author of several books published in France on foods, lifestyle and well-being.
Jacques Fricker is a physician specializing in nutrition. Dr. Fricker is affiliated with Bichet Hospital in Paris, France. He is the author of several books published in France on nutrition, dietetics and health.
"We offer in this book some of our Cretan recipes, which were inspired by the products of our land and our present way of life," the authors observe in the foreword to The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook.
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