Matthew Kenney's Mediterranean Cooking: Great Flavors for the American Kitchen

By Matthew Kenney

A young American chef's fresh new interpretation of beloved Mediterranean cuisine, Matthew Kenney's Mediterranean Cooking is a masterful blend of tradition, passion, and creativity. Celebrated chef Matthew Kenney opened his restaurant, Matthew's, to instant critical acclaim, including a listing in the Zagat guide as one of the top five Mediterranean restaurants in New York City. Recently, he was named a Rising Star Chef in America by PBS. And now with this seminal new cookbook, he shares his signature style of relaxed Mediterranean cooking with 150 wonderful dishes anyone can prepare at home. Relying on widely available ingredients and simplified cooking techniques, Kenney makes it possible for busy cooks everywhere to enjoy the sensuous culinary traditions of the Mediterranean coastal rim, from the hill towns of Spain and Italy to the sun-baked villages of North Africa. A new classic is born.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811814432
• ISBN13: 9780811814430
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Thought it was one of his vegan cookbooks but it is not.

Not your usual Mediterranean cookbook. From a creative chefs perspective. It is not a vegan cookbook, written before Matthew Kenney became a plant based chef.

YUMMY!!

This is a wonderful cookbook by famous chef Matthew Kenney. I love Morrocan and Mediterranean foods. I found the recipes not only delicious but very easy to make. Matthew describes his first interest in Mediterranean cooking and how he became a chef. Some of my favorite recipes are the carpaccio, the fennel salad, and the poek loin with apricot and pistachios. It's a great little book if you like cooking "exotic foods".

A great addition to your kitchen...

This book offers a great combination of things: Excellent recipes, relative ease of cooking the dishes, beautifully graphic layout/design, and wonderful text.Matthew has a good ability to cook these dishes, and an equally good ability to "teach" the reader how to do the same.The recipes are really all over the place, drawing upon influences of all Mediterrean countries. Some dishes for instance, are really more common to Middle-Eastern countries, but all flow wonderfully together in this work.A truly enjoyable, as well as informative, book.

Something for everyone!

With recipes easy enough for beginners and interesting enough for seasoned (no pun intended) gourmands, this book is one I keep going back to time after time. This book also makes a great gift, as it is as attractive as it is usable. I'm here in the heart of America's Dairyland, but Matthew's Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes could almost make me give up butter!

Beautifully done

My husband bought me this book, and I love it! The recipes are easy to follow, and the pictures are great. It's a fun book to go through, and Kenney adds a lot of personal touches. It's one of my favorite mediterranean cookbooks. Try the Sicilian Rice Salad with Tuna and Mint. It's one of my favorites.

Yum Yum! Great for both experienced and inexperienced cooks!

Not only is this book beautiful to look at and hold, with great pictures and graphics (some of the pictures are works of art in and of themselves!) and lovely paper, it also has really great recipes, with clear, easy to follow directions. The VERY best part about it for me, though, is the sections running along the edges of each page, where the chef talks about various ingredients in each recipe, and how that ingredient fits in with other things, and how to combine this dish with other dishes and flavors. This is not just a book of recipes, it is a guide to mediterranean cooking in general, and much of it reads like a good novel. You can sit down and just read it, for fun, and when you are finished, you will have an understanding of the flavors and textures of the food, and how to work with them on your own to create meals. It's a great gift (even for yourself!), both beautiful and informative. Even if you have never been to Matthew's restaurant in New York, you'll love this book!