The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: Over 200 Delicious Recipes for Better Health (Idiot's Guides)

I checked this book out from the library to look at and decided to buy it, but I should have inspected it more closely. This is not an actual Mediterranean cookbook (meaning all or most countries of the Mediterranean). This is a Lebanese/Syrian cookbook. There is nothing wrong with that, and those countries are on the Mediterranean it's true, but it's much more limited than I realized. Also I already HAVE two Lebanese/Syrian cookbooks so if I had noticed that, I may not have bought it. The second thing I don't like about this book (and your opinion may vary) is that she uses ground beef and I use it about once a year so...I guess I will sub ground turkey or something in those recipes. The third thing is that it has no recipes for pork, and while that's understandable if it's a Levant cookbook, it is not right for an actual well rounded Mediterranean cookbook. Italy and Spain and Greece/Crete all use pork regularly, and since it's a cheap meat and one we like, I like being able to use it in recipes. The one thing I do like about this book is that if you make the recipes as written and use the ingredients recommended in the front (for instance 95% fat free ground beef specifically). she has the nutrition breakdown for the recipe and that's very helpful. The one well-rounded Mediterranean cookbook I keep going back to is Nancy Harmon Jenkins' "The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook" and I guess it's still my winner.

Love this cookbook! Great recipes!

Good recipes and overall good information for those who want to follow a Mediterranean Diet. The paper it is printed on is very thin so it is not great for using in the kitchen as I suspect it will wear out fast. Won't handle getting splattered on.

Not simple recipies

I have been following your recipes/u-tube videos for a while so when you came out with your cookbook, I just knew I had to have it.I love your recipes! I wish they had pictures but the way you describe everything in so much detail, I can already picture the dish in my mind. Thanks for such a great cookbook. If you need someone to photograph your recipes in your NEXT cookbook, I would love to be your food stylist! ;)

I moved from Dearborn, MI where we had easy access to Mediterranean food - to New Mexico. My husband and I have been CRAVING good Mediterranean food when I saw this! It has all of our favorites in there - plus some new dishes we can't wait to try. I love that the book gives all of the nutritional breakdown - and it's got tons of helpful hints. I can't wait to throw my first Mediterranean dinner party!!

My cardiologist recommended I start cooking the "Mediterranean" way and this book is being used as a companion to other cookbooks to eliminate the butter, etc. I haven't lost any weight - maybe that will come over time. It's a good cookbook and the recipes are tasty.

I so hoping a cookbook of dedemed's was going to be great. it wasn't. :-( it's was a bunch of print, no pics. I love her food though. I have to give the book 3 stars, but dedemed 4 stars.

Very practical, good breakdown of nutritional content and easy to navigate index . The only reason it didn't get a 5 star review, was due some discrepancies between lists of ingredients and instructions adding or omitting the same. Careful proof reading could have avoided this, but it was an easy workaround.

Very deceptive name . Should be called Middle Eastern Diet. Mediterranean diet would infer Greek food this book doesn't have one Greek dish in it all middle eastern food . Returned it promptly .

Bought for my mom and she likes it