Aegean - by Marianna Leivaditaki (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"So much more than a cookbook, it is a love song to a special place and its cuisune. Marianna Leivaditaki is a natural storyteller. She grew up in Chania, on the Greek island of Crete, and spent her childhood helping out in the family-run taverna. After school, she carried around her blue notebook, writing down all the recipes she would like to cook, helped by the kitchen wisdom of her Greek grandmothers. Marianna's love for the food of her heritage flows through every page, but she brings it her own contemporary style, honed through an illustrious career in professional restaurant kitchens. As head chef of the celebrated London restaurant Morito, she has championed high-quality ingredients, presenting them in simple, beautiful sharing plates. The recipes in her book, inspired by the Sea, the Land, and the Mountains of the Aegean islands, celebrate the wealth of the Mediterranean diet, rich in olive oil, fresh vegetables and fruit, nuts, fish, and whole grains, and a passion for good food and shared meals. Marianna offers achievable, delicious dishes celebrating fresh, seasonal ingredients that you can take time to enjoy with friends and family"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>So much more than a cookbook; it is a love song to a special place and its cuisine</b></p> <p>Marianna Leivaditaki is a natural storyteller. She grew up in Chania, on the Greek island of Crete, and spent her childhood helping out in the family-run taverna. After school, she carried around her blue notebook, writing down all the recipes she would like to cook, helped by the kitchen wisdom of her Greek grandmothers.</p> <p>Marianna's love for the food of her heritage flows through every page, but she brings it her own contemporary style, honed through an illustrious career in professional restaurant kitchens. As head chef of the celebrated London restaurant Morito, she has championed high-quality ingredients, presenting them in simple, beautiful sharing plates.</p> <p>The recipes in her book, inspired by the Sea, the Land, and the Mountains of the Aegean islands, celebrate the wealth of the Mediterranean diet, rich in olive oil, fresh vegetables and fruit, nuts, fish, and whole grains, and a passion for good food and shared meals. Marianna offers achievable, delicious dishes celebrating fresh, seasonal ingredients that you can take time to enjoy with friends and family.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>A delicious evocation of place and memory from one of my favorite cooks.</p>-- "Allan Jenkins, editor, Observer Food Monthly"<br><br><p>I want to make everything in this beautiful book. An absolute treasure.</p>-- "Rosie Birkett, author of The Joyful Home Cook"<br><br>"Leivaditaki is able to truly dive into the unique specificities of her native Cretan cuisine ... [You] will love this book's photos of the island, also shot by Elena Heatherwick. The book is divided into recipes from sea, land, and mountains, with a final sweets chapter (called, charmingly, 'for after'). The rustic seafood preparations really shine. A whole charcoal-grilled fish dressed simply with lemon, oil, and herbs; a pot of Kakavia, fisherman's soup; and a spicy clam salad are all plenty beautiful on their own. In their entirety, they offer cooking inspiration for twenty or so varieties of fish and shellfish. To anyone committed to eating sustainable seafood that's been thwarted by a cookbook's narrow selection before: this one's for you."-- "Best New Cookbooks Fall 2020"<br><br>"Marianna Leivaditaki's Aegean is the work of a London chef longing for home, Crete. Showcasing recipes for grilled squid with lemon, arugula, and sheep's milk cheese and slow-cooked leg of lamb with orzo, it exudes love; the splendid light in the photos also provides vicarious Vitamin D."-- "Round Up of Holiday Cookbooks 2020"<br><br>A fisherman's daughter, Leivaditaki grew up on the island of Crete, but couldn't wait to leave its confines. After gaining success as a London chef, she finally began to appreciate the culinary bounty that she had abandoned. Here she shares recipes from her Cretan life that sum up the riches of the island's seas and its equally fecund plains and mountains. Many of Leivaditaki's recipes are so grounded in Crete's resources that they may be not easily reproduced in kitchens elsewhere. Limpets and turbot rarely reach North American markets, but a home cook may readily achieve mussels steamed in ouzo. Even more doable, her baked potatoes stuffed with shrimp and smoked salmon mayonnaise will star on any table. Lamb raised in Crete provides many an inspiration for red meat dishes, and beef stews appear as well. Leivaditaki concludes with sweets featuring honeyed goat cheese in filo pastry. Color photographs throughout display not only glorious Cretan food but also the dramatic beauty of the Mediterranean island's landscape.-- "Booklist"<br><br>In a standout debut, London chef Leivaditaki, who grew up working in her family's restaurant on Crete, writes with grace and passion about the region's cuisine... This fresh take on Aegean cuisine introduces a captivating new voice.<br>
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