Packed with straightforward recipes, food facts, photos and colorful anecdotes, this book delivers the spirit of Croatia's culture and cuisine. Based on the author and her husband's three-year odyssey sailing Croatia's magnificent Adriatic coast, she describes the lands they explored, the people they met, the markets they visited and the foods they enjoyed. The straightforward, flavor-packed recipes feature simple ingredients and will help to motivate the reader to eat locally, seasonally and sustainably.

A fearless foodie, a fair-weather sailor and a tireless traveler,Karen Evenden has been fascinated with food, its history and preparation since childhood. At the age of 17, her curiosity for food was rewarded with a Betty Crocker scholarship to study Home Economics at Cornell University. Since then she has pursued a variety of vocations and avocations in a number of hometowns across America and abroad. Underlying each phase of her experience-filled life, food and travel have remained prime passions.In the fall of 1997, life's twists and turns found her aboard her husband's newly acquired sailboat in the south of France. For the next few years, they explored France, Italy, Greece and Turkey. Then on the 1st day of summer in 2000, they arrived in Dubrovnik. When they checked into Croatia, they did not know if they would stay a day, a week or a month. Never did they consider that their "visit" would last for more than three years. But Croatia seduced them. The cruising was magic.a seemingly endless choice of protected coves, charming medieval villages, fascinating farmer's markets, a rich and potent history and a generous and welcoming people. However, even good things come to an end. After almost seven years of cruising, the yearning for a land-based community encouraged Karen and Bill to search for a home in sun-drenched southern California. Once again, good fortune was theirs.they found a small ranch in California's beautiful and productive Ojai Valley. Today, the boat is sold and they are no longer retired. Karen and Bill are farmers and artisanal entrepreneurs.nurturing their land to produce Mediterranean inspired crops: walnuts, Ojai Pixie tangerines, lavender and olives. Bill works the land and Karen receives endless pleasure in their rural lifestyle; helping to grow the crops, refine the products, develop recipes and write about food.