Recipes from Paradise

For Fred Plotkin, who has spent the last two decades traveling throughout Italy in search of memorable food, nothing can compare to the herb-perfumed cuisine of Liguria, the Italian Riviera. Now, in the first authoritative cookbook in English devoted to this region, Plotkin has created an enticing gastronomic and social portrait of a place he loves. The more than two hundred dishes in Recipes from Paradise offer definitive proof that Ligurian food is not only the tastiest in Italy, but most healthful as well - the ultimate Mediterranean Diet. Plotkin includes sixteen pestos, eleven focaccias, many filled pastas, and minestrone - the most famous foods of the region. He introduces us, as well, to more than one hundred Ligurian specialties that do not appear in any other book. These dishes are delicious and attuned to the healthful way people want to eat now.