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The Mediterranean Pantry: Creating and Using Condiments and Seasonings [Hardcover]

Aglaia Kremezi (Author), Martin Brigdale (Photographer)
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January 9, 1994
In The Mediterranean Pantry, Aglaia Kremezi presents 70 recipes for condiments and seasoning mixtures from France, Italy, Spain, the Eastern Mediterranean, and North Africa. The chapters correspond to how these provisions are preserved--in bottles, boxes, and jars. The text is accompanied by 20 color photographs that demonstrate how to turn these items into elegant gifts.

The Mediterranean Pantry includes recipes for unusual and familiar condiments--preserves, flavored oils and vinegars, liqueurs, and spices using these products. Preserve colorful red, yellow, and green bell peppers in olive oil during the height of the season, and serve a tasty pasta sauce months later that you can make in minutes chopping the peppers and mixing with roasted garlic and olive oil. Or make a tart green tomato and mint relish before the first frost and enjoy it with roast lamb on a cold winter night. The Mediterranean Pantry will help you infuse sunny Mediterranean flavors into meals all years long.

This delicious collection includes recipes for Preserved Lemons, Green Olives with Harissa and Orange, Green Fig Preserves, Fried Artichoke with Garlic in Olive Oil, Olive Oil with Truffles, and many other items with which to stock your pantry shelves. Many recipes are as simple as mixing several ingredients, with little or no cooking. In addition, a detailed list of mail-order sources ensures that even the most exotic ingredients will be available to all.



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From Library Journal

A number of titles on preserving and on homemade condiments have appeared recently, including Charles Reavis's A Dash of Elegance (LJ 9/15/84) and Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz's Clearly Delicious (LJ 6/15/94), but this one is unusual in its focus on a particular area, the currently popular cuisines of the Mediterranean. Kremezi (The Foods of Greece, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1993) organizes her recipes by container, and in addition to the more common categories of pickles, flavored oils, relishes, and others "In Bottles" and "In Jars," she includes some "In Boxes," not only spice mixes and herb blends but also a number of baked goods that are good keepers. There are 70 recipes in all, many illustrated by full-page color photographs. Recommended for larger collections.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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The Mediterranean Pantry is filled with delicious recipes for unusual and familiar condiments--preserves, flavored oils and vinegars, liqueurs, and spice and herb mixtures--that can be used to infuse sunny Mediterranean flavors into meals all year. It also contains many suggestions and a selection of delicious recipes that use these products to produce dishes with a Mediterranean flavor at a moment' notice. The text is accompanied by twenty color photographs. which demonstrate how to make these condiments into elegant gifts.

Drawing on customs that extend back to ancient times, Aglaia Kremezi explores traditional seasonings and preserved foods from around the Mediterranean, weaving together historical, mythological, and botanical information. She presents seventy recipes from Italy, Spain, Greece, the Eastern Mediterranean, and North Africa that incorporate distinctive herbs, spices, and flavorings. Included are recipes for Preserved Lemons, Harissa, Green Olives with Harissa and Orange, Green Fig Preserves, Fried Artichokes with Garlic in Olive Oil, Thyme Liqueur, Olive Oil with Truffles, and many other items with which to stock your pantry shelves and which also make out-of-the-ordinary gifts. Many recipes are as simple as mixing several ingredients, with little or no cooking.

The book includes a details list of mail-order sources so that even the most exotic ingredients are available to all. It is an indispensable volume for all who like to preserve their summer produce, prepare delicious, robust dishes quickly, and share the bounty of their larders by giving homemade prepared foods.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Artisan; First Edition edition (January 9, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 188518302X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1885183026
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 8.3 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #569,502 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A PREPARE AHEAD MEDITERRANEAN MENU, April 13, 2004
This review is from: The Mediterranean Pantry: Creating and Using Condiments and Seasonings (Hardcover)
Mediterranean style cooking pleases many and award-winning Kremezi gathered some 70 no-nonsense recipes that will appeal to most.

Many of these recipes are as easy as blending several ingredients then storing the mixture. For instance, enchance grilled meat by basting with the recipe for Olive Oil with Rosemary and Pink Peppercorns.

Another prepare ahead pasta sauce is stored in your refrigerator, then can be heated as quickly as you cook your linguini.

Walnuts and honey was one of the first desserts served - way before sugar. Today its wonderful on yogurt or granola, and it will keep for 6 months to a year.

Aglaia Kremezi's motto is "Be prepared!"

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Good reference for those of us that want to eat very good. This is a good place to start building the collection of food, spices and know how.
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