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From Tapas to Meze: Small Plates from the Mediterranean | 
 enlarge | Author: Joanne Weir
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 111628
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 7.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1580085865
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.591822
EAN: 9781580085861
Publication Date: October 2004
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Product Description
In this completely revised edition of From Tapas to Meze, award-winning chef, cook-book author, and teacher Joanne Weir presents recipes for Mediterranean first courses. These are authentic recipes cajoled from the region's finest home cooks and restaurant chefs. Here you will find people gathered together to share good conversation along with steaming bowls of pasta, tiny deep-friend fish, roasted sweet vegetables, and spicy pizzas. Step back into summer with this wonderfully evocative cookbook of long warm evenings and long lazy meals!
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 Excellent resource May 9, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book offers something for all tastes. Most recipes are basic enough to allow for creativity, yet if followed, will yield excellent results. Also an excellent informational resource.
Simple and tasty dishes in an educational format December 23, 2006
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I got this book as a gift, in advance of a party I was planning (with a Mediterranean tapas theme). I tried three of the dishes and found the cookbook not only was easy to follow, but had some great culinary information in the start of each section. It is divided into regions (Spain, Southern France, etc). While some of the ingredients (like saffron threads) may be too expensive or difficult to obtain for a last-minute meal, most of the dishes are easy to prepare.
I made the shrimp-stuff phyllo and, despite having never worked with the pastry before, was able to turn out attractive and tasty results. Two of the other dishes I tried had recipes for flatbread and pizza from scratch--but in the interest of time, I used prepared pizza dough. I found that the results were just fine, although I may go back and try the bread recipes when I have more hours to spend.
All in all, this book has some great recipes, easy to follow instructions, and the foods are easily amended based on what you have in your kitchen. I recommend it for anyone who wants to learn how to cook Mediterranean food. Once I've cooked through these recipes, I have a hunch that I'll be able to go off on my own and create dishes loosely based on the ones in the book. It's not just a "how-to" book, but it is an education as well.
 nice gift book June 16, 2006
4 out of 20 found this review helpful
I bought this book as a gift for my dad. Saw it at a local bookstore and bought it there... couldn't tell how nice it was online, and was really looking for a hardcover mediterranean cookbook for him. Everything that looked decent on Amazon is out of print. But this has lots of color photos, and is a beautiful gift book (although as it was a gift I haven't tried the recipes... I'll have to borrow it sometime). Recommended.
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