Mediterranean Small Plates Boards, Platters, and Spreads from the World's Healthiest Cuisine

by Wright, Clifford; McLaughlin, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780760375204
• ISBN10: 0760375208
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-08-23
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press

Summary

Mediterranean food expert and James Beard Award winner Clifford Wright presents a mouth-watering collection of recipes for tapas, mezze, antipasti, and other small plates traditional across the Mediterranean region.

The Mediterranean region shares a love of bold flavor and fresh ingredients. Mediterranean Small Plates takes you on a culinary journey, showing you how each country uses the foundational ingredients of olive oil, garlic, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, onions, and fresh herbs to develop their own unique range of flavors and textures.

In addition to being beautiful to behold and delicious to eat, a diet of Mediterranean dishes has been scientifically linked to good health, including increased life span, improved brain function, better eye health, lower risk of certain cancers, decreased risk of heart disease and diabetes, and reduced inflammation. With small plates, you can easily share an adventurous, flavorful variety of these healthy foods with family and friends.

Enjoy making and sharing:
 

• Catalonian Spinach Empanadas with Raisins and Pine Nuts
• Puff Pastry Crescents with Saffron Chicken and Almonds
• Tomato and Avocado Salad
• Baked Zucchini Stuffed with Shrimp in the Provencal Style
• Artichoke and Mozzarella Crostini
• Fresh Favas, Young Artichokes, and Spring Peas in the Sicilian Style
• Grilled Feta Cheese in Grape Leaves
• Grilled Moroccan-Style Skewers of Spicy Ground Beef

Filled with stunning photography and easy-to-prepare recipes to serve and savor, Mediterranean Small Platesmakes every meal a celebration.

Author Biography

Clifford A. Wright won the James Beard/KitchenAid Cookbook of the Year award and the James Beard Award for the Best Writing on Food in 2000 for A Mediterranean Feast (William Morrow), which was also a finalist for the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook of the Year award that same year. He is the author of fourteen books, twelve of which are cookbooks. Wright’s articles on food and cuisine have appeared in Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Saveur, and other magazines. He is a contributing editor to ZesterDaily.com. As an independent researcher, Wright wrote the food entries for Columbia University’s Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and has published scholarly articles on food in peer-reviewed journals such as Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, Food and Foodways, and Gastronomica. Wright has also lectured on food at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Boston University, Georgetown University, Davidson College in North Carolina, Loyola Marymount University, South Dakota State University, University of California at Santa Barbara, and the Culinary Institute of America, among other institutions. As a cooking teacher, he has taught cooking classes at the Central Market cooking schools in Texas, the Rhode Island School of Design, Institute for Culinary Education in New York, Sur la Table, and other cooking schools around the United States. His website CliffordAWright.com is one of the most visited sites for people interested in Mediterranean foods. In 2009, he launched the Venice Cooking School (VeniceCookingSchool.com) with Martha Rose Shulman in Los Angeles, California. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

Table of Contents

Contents
An Introduction to Small Plates
Tapas from Spain
Hors d'Oeuvre from France
Antipasto from Italy
Meze from Greece, Turkey, and the Balkans
Mazza from the Middle East and North America
Suggested Party Menus
Measurement Equivalents
Index
About the Author