Mediterranean Cookbooks for Health and Longevity

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Here are some Christmas gift book suggestions for someone trying to eat healthier via the Mediterranean diet.

• The Mediterranean Heart Diet: How It Works and How to Reap the Health Benefits, with Recipes to Get You Started by Helen V. Fisher.
  [More than 140 delicious and healthy recipes from an experienced cookbook author and a doctorate-level clinical nutrition specialist.] 
• The Mediterranean Diet by Marissa Cloutier and Eve Adamson.  [The Mediterranean-style recipes here get you close to an ovo-lacto-vegetarian diet.  The authors complicate the Oldways-Willett Mediterranean Pyramid and promote soy milk products.  Nevertheless, this is “good eats.”]
• The Mediterranean Kitchen by Joyce Esersky Goldstein.
• The Essential Mediterranean: How Regional Cooks Transform Key Ingredients into the World’s Favorite Cuisines by Nancy Harmon Jenkins. 
• Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: A Delicious Alternative for Lifelong Health by Nancy Harmon Jenkins.  Updated in 2008 as The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook. 
• Mediterranean Cooking by Paula Wolfert.

Steve Parker, M.D.