title: The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: Over 200 Delicious Recipes for Better Health (Idiot's Guides)
author: Denise Hazime
description: <b>Denise Hazime</b> acquired a love of Mediterranean cooking at a very young age. Growing up in a large Lebanese family steeped in rich culinary tradition, she was exposed early on to a wide range of cooking techniques from her mother, who taught her the essentials for preparing all types of dishes the healthy Mediterranean way. As a child, if she wasn't in the kitchen helping her mother cook, she was in front of the TV watching Julia Child and Jeff Smith.
zlib_text: **Mediterranean Diet Cookbook For Dummies **®****
  
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  **Table of Contents**
  
  Introduction
  
  > > About This Book
  
  > > Conventions Used in This Book
  
  > > What You’re Not to Read
  
  > > Foolish Assumptions
  
  > > How This Book Is Organized
  
  > > > > Part I: Exploring the Mediterranean Lifestyle
  
  > > > > Part II: Creating a Healthy Lifestyle with Mediterranean Cooking
  
  > > > > Part III: Starters and Sides
  
  > > > > Part IV: Main Entrees and Desserts
  
  > > > > Part V: The Part of Tens
  
  > > Icons Used in This Book
  
  > > Where to Go from Here
  
  Part I: Exploring the Mediterranean Lifestyle
  
  > > Chapter 1: Introducing the Mediterranean Diet
  
  > > > > Identifying the Flavors of the Mediterranean Coast
  
  > > > > Discovering Where the Food Comes From
  
  > > > > > > Focusing on farming
  
  > > > > > > Eating seasonally
  
  > > > > > > Fishing the