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Excellent Mediterranean diet cookbook

This Mediterranean diet cookbook by Colman Andrews, Catalan Cuisine, Europe's last great culinary secret, is the best Bible of Catalan cuisine in English by far.

It contains more than 200 recipes of the acclaimed Catalan cuisine, which was the embodiment of the Mediterranean cooking ways and the Mediterranean diet long... long before Ancel Keys coined this term.

What makes this Mediterranean diet cookbook specially captivating and interesting is that Mr. Andrews is not happy with presenting a dry collection of recipes, he's more enthusiastic than that.

Rarely does a food writer display such vigorous curiosity, refined taste, and sense of adventure. Here is an intelligent, superbly written, profound study of a great and fascinating cuisine, and an absolute rare phenomenon -a cookbook that reads like a novel. This opens a whole new era in cookbook writing.

Paula Wolfert, Mediterranean diet expert and food writer

The Catalan Cuisine cookbook in a nutshell

• First, the author briefly introduces the reader to Catalan history, language and culture, including all the Catalan-speaking countries. You'll learn that Catalunya has "a complex and sophisticated system of recipes and techniques, first codified as early as the fourteenth century." Romans, Visigoths, Moors, and later Italian and French, all left their imprint in Catalonia and its cuisine.


• Secondly, the author comments on the main ingredients, raw materials and specialties of Catalan cuisine and features their uses and qualities from the gastronomical point of view. What makes this Mediterranean diet cookbook very valuable is that Colman Andrews tells the American reader when an ingredient or raw material is not available in the USA and suggests sensible substitutions. Regarding fish and mushrooms, for instance, his comments are invaluable.


• Third, next to the traditional Catalan cuisine Mediterranean recipes passed on from mother to daughter for generations, in this Mediterranean diet cookbook you'll find refined but authentic copycat restaurant recipes Colman Andrews collected from his many Catalan chef friends.

Mr. Andrews has a weakness for the coastal Empordà region, known as the Costa Brava by many of you. Fair enough, as the Empordà boasts a delicious cuisine that invented Mar i muntanya, Sea and mountain dishes, a delight unique to Catalan cuisine.

Unlike surf'n'turf, though, it doesn't merely pose its main elements next to each other awkwardly on a plate ("Say... what's this shrimp doing here"): It cooks them in each other's flavors, it marries them -becoming thus symbolic of the Empordà's own happy confluence of land and sea.

Colman Andrews, from Catalan Cuisine

This Mediterranean diet cookbook faithfully features what we eat and how we cook in Mediterranean Catalonia, without pretenses, current trends or disguises.