Title:	7-Ingredient Mediterranean: 100+ Simple, Vibrant Recipes
	Author:	Cider Mill Press
	Published:	June 17, 2025, Cider Mill Press
	No. of Pages:	224
	Cover Price:	$21.78 Hardcover, $14.99 Kindle

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Since the Mediterranean diet has been touted to be the most healthy, busy readers who want to cook dishes from that genre will want to pick up 7-Ingredient Mediterranean: 100+ Simple, Vibrant Recipes. This cookbook includes dozens of good recipes that take advantage of the healthy ingredients in the Mediterranean diet. However, the book is simply a compilation of recipes. It is very impersonal, having no notes, tips, or comments at the beginning of any of the recipes and nothing to entice readers to go to their kitchen and prepare a dish. Given that, the book has no personality. It has nothing to connect the reader to the recipes.

While it is very tempting to find recipes with only 7 ingredients because of the time savings gathering ingredients and preparing the recipe, the limited ingredients are only one aspect that readers look for when wanting to re-create a recipe for friends and family. The recipes need to be appealing, and many of these are not. While there are some photographs included which would generally help, some of them look like the dishes have already been eaten and sent back. Many of the recipes aren’t photographed at all, and readers will find themselves wondering if the recipes are even worth making.

All told, this book does have some appealing recipes, but lacks an author and an author’s take on the recipes. The recipes are easy to follow and listed in the traditional manner, but without a real person presenting them, readers won’t want to make them. There are certainly better books out there.

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