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For centuries, Mediterranean women—from classic beauty Helen of Troy to our own ''reel''-time goddess Sophia Loren—have known the secret of healthy eating, living, and being. Mediterranean women have long embraced a natural vitality, sensual earthiness, grace, and warmth that allows them to be authentically themselves, to live long, spiritually rewarding—and thin!—lives, freed from empty calories, empty diet promises, impossible standards, and a ''say no to food'' mentality.
Thanks to the influence of cooking lessons in her Italian grandmother's kitchen, Melissa Kelly, co-owner and executive chef of Primo Restaurant, revels in sharing how every woman can extract the essence of the Mediterranean spirit and make it uniquely her own. From the cuisines of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, women learn how to maintain a healthy weight even as they discover and delight in the Mediterranean approach to food: the joy of the colors, textures, aromas, and flavors.
In addition, science now confirms that eating the Mediterranean way, getting most of the fat in your diet from olive oil instead of from meat and other sources of animal fats, is heart-healthy, immune-boosting . . . and, yes, slimming, too!
Mediterranean is a way of living, a celebration of family and togetherness woven with pleasure, laughter, and sensual delight. Flavor, variety, abundance, love of family, and soulful adventure are what Mediterranean women embody. Chef Kelly helps women bring these traditional qualities of Mediterranean hearth and health into their own homes.
Overflowing with a cornucopia of more than one hundred diverse and mouth-watering recipes, as well as a detailed menu planner, Mediterranean Women Stay Slim, Too gives women delicious food to eat in the context of an easy-to-follow plan. While sampling everything from traditional Hummus to Quick-Cooked Salmon with Fall Vegetable Pistou, to exploring the complex and satisfying layering of flavors in Prosciutto, Fennel, and Pear Salad with Persimmon Vinaigrette, you'll join women in enjoying the timeless, artful Mediterranean way of eating well and living a long, sensuous, beautiful life. Opa!
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√ Eating to Be Sexy, Fit, and Fabulous! √ √ Mediterranean Women Stay Slim, Too C Chef Melissa Kelly with Eve Adamson Produced by Amaranth √ To women everywhere seeking a healthier, more beautiful, more conscious way of living: mothers, daughters, sisters, and grandmothers, links in the chain of healthy vibrant women throughout the United States, the Mediterranean, and across the globe. And to the men behind us who encourage and love us: our partners, our fathers, our sons, our brothers, and our grandfathers. Salut! Map Contents Map Alpha 1 1 Where I Come From 7 2 Good Taste: The Slimming Power of High Flavor 24 3 Abundant Variety 51 4 Why Olive Oil Is Not Fattening 77 5 To the Market and in the Garden 95 6 Tapas Tastings: Color, More Flavor, Texture, Aroma 113 Going Whole Grain 131 7 ~ vii ~ 8 Madonna of Moderation 150 9 To the Table, Famiglia 175 10 Water and Wine 197 11 Take It or Leave It 218 12 What’s Good for Your Heart 236 13 Nothing New Under the Sun 254 14 Artigiano 265 15 Baklava and Biscotti 283 16 Long Life! 311 Omega 319 Index 321 ~ viii ~ About the Author Credits Cover C