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Title: A Mediterranean Feast
Review: A pretentious and extremely poorly organized book which purports to be both history and a cook book. The history sections are, in many instances, superficial and/or pure speculation and the recipes are mostly regurgitations of recipes in other (and better cook books). The recipes that are not regurgitations are rather arcane and, in my view, there is good reason for them to remain that way. Thus there is a recipe which calls for lima beans in a micro-wavable package. As to organization, at pp 32-33 there is a recipe for pasta with tomato sauce which precedes a section entitled Money and Capitalism. It is impossible to find any rational organization that is remotely useful to a cook. An article on artichokes explains that they are labor intensive to prepare, but like lobster worth the effort. There are simply too many good cook books oj the market to buy this overpriced one. Either get a history book or a cook book because this is neither.
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