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The acclaimed chef and author of How to Roast a Lamb offers a simple strategy for healthy cooking, highlighting the ease, deliciousness, and proven benefits of the Mediterranean diet.
Doctors have extolled the virtues of the Mediterranean diet for decades, but no chef has given home cooks the recipes they'll want to make again and again -- until now. In Live to Eat , Michael Psilakis modernizes the food of his heritage to prove that clean, healthy meals can also be comforting and easy to prepare.
Cooking the Mediterranean way means deliciousness, not deprivation: a nearly endless array of satisfying weeknight meals for your family can start with just seven easy-to-find staples, from Greek yogurt to simple tomato sauce.
Author Notes
Michael Psilakis is responsible for putting Modern Greek cuisine on the culinary map. Psilakis has earned many of the food world's highest honors including Chef of the Year from Bon Appétit and Esquire , a Michelin star, and a James Beard Award nomination. He owns Kefi, Fishtag, and MP Taverna in New York.
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Booklist Review
If anyone deserves credit for raising Greek food in the U.S. from its hidebound tropes of flaming cheese and gyros, it's chef Psilakis. From his New York City restaurants, he has developed a style of cooking that is not just Greek but encompasses the cooking found all along the Mediterranean coastline. This culinary approach focuses on olive oil and garlic as primary ingredients to flavor seafood and vegetables. Greek yogurt, currently riding a crest of popularity, shows up in dishes from appetizer dips through honey-sweetened desserts. Psilakis readily crosses boundaries in his cooking. He eagerly reaches for Mexican chipotle peppers to add punch to yogurt and uses tortillas to make Mediterranean chicken tacos. To add depth of flavor to his tomato sauces, he first roasts cherry tomatoes. Psilakis reimagines classic Greek spanakopita as a rich seafood dish, fillets of sole enclosing the traditional spinach and cheese filling. A good choice for ethnic-foods collections.--Knoblauch, Mark Copyright 2017 Booklist
Library Journal Review
It's easier to cook a healthy meal when you have good ingredients on hand. Here, chef Psilakis (How To Roast a Lamb) reveals seven key pantry items that simplify the Mediterranean diet. These fundamentals-Greek yogurt, garlic confit, tomato sauce, and more-are the building blocks for dozens of fresh recipes, including yogurt parfaits with stewed strawberries and pistachio butter, garlicky cauliflower with English peas and mint, whole-wheat spaghetti with roasted tomato sauce, and modern Greek salad with grilled hanger steak. With an eye toward efficiency, -Psilakis always notes when recipe components can be prepared in advance, frozen, or substituted for store bought shortcuts. VERDICT With Psilakis's convenient staples at the ready, readers can comfortably whip up gratifying, feel-good meals. © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Recipe Index | p. viii |
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Magnificent Seven | p. 4 |
| How to Use This Book | p. 9 |
| A Few Good Techniques and Tips | p. 11 |
| Greek Yogurt | p. 16 |
| Garden Vegetables and Fruits | p. 58 |
| Sweet and Sour Peppers and Onions | p. 90 |
| Roasted Cherry Tomatoes | p. 110 |
| Garlic Confit | p. 134 |
| Tomato Sauce | p. 170 |
| Red Wine Vinaigrette | p. 188 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 209 |
| Index | p. 211 |