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From: Salt Lake City, UT USA

Joined: March 29th, 2010

About me: I enjoy cooking, and my favorite internet COOKING community is the one here at cookbooker. If you want to connect about my other non-academic passion, you can find me as QueezleWeaver on Ravelry, and mostly Warped Weavers. But I've miss you cookbooker, and so here I am again, and happy to contribute.

Favorite cookbook: Savory Way

Favorite recipe: roasted anything (most recently grapes)

Stuffed Zucchini with spiced beef or lamb from Zaitoun

When it is zucchini time, it can be difficult to find something interesting. But this was both different and a total delight! Zucchini are scraped out and roasted. The "meat" from within the zucchini... read more >

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Mediterranean Harvest: Vegetarian Recipes from the World's Healthiest Cuisine

By Martha Rose Shulman
Rodale Books - 2007

This cookbook has lots of recipes! Chapters are centered around meal courses, such as "little foods: starters, snacks, meze and more", "pasta", "savory pies and gratins" and what is missing from Shulman's big book - "sweets and desserts". This cookbook lacks color pictures, but Martha Rose Shulman's written descriptions describe both the look of the dish and how its prepared. She is a fairly no-nonsense writer, and I liked the focus.

What makes this a good cookbook (lots of recipes) also makes it a bit overwhelming. I would find myself reading and reading, but then being fairly indecisive on recipe selection.

In addition to the recipes, there are green pages and green boxes that focus on either an ingredient (e.g. parsley, p.96) or a type of dish (ratatouille & company, p. 295). These sections give both preparation advice (parsley) and both historical and regional information about the food (ratatouille).

There are lots of Mediterranean cookbooks. This one is special in that it is vegetarian, and it covers a wide breadth of recipes.