Title:	The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners: Meal Plans, Expert Guidance, and 100 Recipes to Get You Started
	Author:	Elena Paravantes, RDN
	Published:	December 29, 2020, Alpha
	No. of Pages:	192
	Cover Price:	$19.99 Paperback, $9.99 Kindle

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Almost everyone wants to be healthier, and Elena Paravantes’ cookbook, The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners: Meal Plans, Expert Guidance, and 100 Recipes to Get You Started, is a perfect primer for changing the diet and heat healthier. This cookbook includes not only recipes, but articles on healthy eating by adapting a diet rich in Mediterranean ingredients and dishes.

The recipes are written in a conventional easy-to-understand manner, so that every cook, from beginners to advanced, will be able to turn out beautiful, appetizing, picture-perfect dishes. Although there aren’t pictures of every recipe, there are a fair amount of beautiful photographs of many of the recipes. It will be difficult to choose which dishes to make first, and some will certainly become favorites. It is especially nice to know that there are menus and meal planning hints to combine the dishes in the book to make healthy meals. Anyone who has made some of the recipes (the Sheet Pan Cauliflower with Parmesan and Garlic, as well as Grilled Fish with Walnut Gremolata and Caponata were the first in my queue and they were delicious)will not hesitate to adopt the diet to their own lifestyle.

All told, this cookbook offers a new, healthy way of eating with excellent advice, healthy foods, and great recipes. It is a good choice to add to a recipe collection, and will insure that those who love eating will get some enjoyment while improving their health.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.