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While many of the newest Mediterranean cookbooks use storytelling and location photography to contextualize recipes within a specific culture, these titles focus on making the region’s cuisine ...

Which Mediterranean diet book is best? The Mediterranean diet is fairly plant-based with an emphasis on using different kinds of healthy fats as well as cooking with legumes and lean meats like ...

Dieticians and physicians have long promoted the Mediterranean diet for improving cardiovascular health and lengthening life spans. But much of the discussion reduces the lifestyles and foodways of ...

Claudia Roden’s first book on Middle Eastern food came out in 1968, when many people thought the now-ubiquitous cuisine was mostly comprised of “sheep’s eyes and testicles.” “I could never have even ...

The Mediterranean Sea unites Africa, Asia and Europe. Each region has their own specialties, but they also share certain common themes – olive oil, citrus fruits, fish both fresh and dried, fresh ...

What if “diet” wasn’t a dirty word? During Suzy Karadsheh’s childhood in Port Said, Egypt, diet culture was nonexistent. “My parents emphasized joy at the table, rather than anything else,” Karadsheh ...

In conducting research for her new cookbook, Yasmin Khan visited refugee camps on Lesvos, a Grecian island in the Aegean Sea. Roughly 6 miles from Turkey’s shore, the island has been ground zero for ...