A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David

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  • Soupe au pistou

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    • Ingredients: French beans (haricots verts); potatoes; vermicelli pasta; basil; tomatoes; Gruyère cheese; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Soupe basque

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    • Ingredients: lard; pumpkins; green cabbage; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Avgolimono

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    • Ingredients: chicken broth; rice; eggs; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Soupe catalane

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    • Ingredients: onions; bacon; celery; tomatoes; potatoes; eggs; thyme; parsley; nutmeg; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Puree leontine

    from A Book of Mediterranean Food A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David

    • Categories: Soups; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: leeks; spinach; peas; lettuce; parsley; mint; celery; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Soup of haricot beans

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    • Categories: Soups; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: pork butt; mutton; ham; garlic sausages; whole goose; store-cupboard ingredients; haricot beans
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  • Soup with risotto

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    • Ingredients: rice; chicken broth; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Zuppa alla modenese

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    • Categories: Soups; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: spinach; eggs; nutmeg; Parmesan cheese; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Hot cucumber soup

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    • Categories: Soups; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: potatoes; onions; cucumbers; parsley; chives; leeks; mint; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Fish soup

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    • Categories: Soups; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: fish fillets; cod; leeks; celery; parsley; tomato purée; fennel; lemons; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Soupe aux moules

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    • Ingredients: mussels; celery; parsley; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Tomato and shell-fish soup

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    • Categories: Soups; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: tomatoes; herbs of your choice; mussels; prawns; clams; vermicelli pasta; parsley; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Melokhia

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    • Categories: Soups; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: rabbit; dried chiles; ground cayenne pepper; store-cupboard ingredients; melokhia
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  • Iced cucumber jelly soup

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    • Categories: Soups; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: cucumbers; mint; gelatin; prawns; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Gaspacho

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    • Categories: Soups; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: cucumbers; canned pimentos; bread; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Gaspacho variation

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    • Categories: Soups; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: tomato soup; tomatoes; paprika; black olives; parsley; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Iced chicken and tomato consomme

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    • Categories: Soups; Summer; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: chicken stock; basil; chicken consommé
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  • Tarama

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    • Categories: Salads; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: eggs; smoked cod roe; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Okrochka

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    • Categories: Soups; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: cucumbers; fennel; frankfurters sausage; shrimp; cooked lobster meat; leeks; parsley; yogurt; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Sardines marinees a la nicoise

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    • Ingredients: canned sardines; bay leaves; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Iced pimento soup

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    • Ingredients: canned pimentos; tomato juice; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Tahina salad

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    • Categories: Salads; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: sesame seeds; parsley; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • The savoury omelette

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    • Ingredients: eggs; parsley; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Pan bania

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    • Categories: Salads; Mediterranean
    • Ingredients: black olives; canned pimentos; tomatoes; broad beans; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Tarte a l'oignon et aux oeufs

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    • Ingredients: all-purpose flour; lard; store-cupboard ingredients
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  • Poireaux a la provencale

    • chriscooks on August 01, 2011

      Works well with young leeks in the summer when the tomatoes are good.

  • Patafla

    • chriscooks on July 01, 2012

      This is essentially a highly-flavored bread salad that is put back into the bread. It needs to sit overnight, after which it is delicious. A bit messy to eat but wonderful. Only worth making when local tomatoes are available. The recipe makes more than you need to stuff the baguettes; cut back on the bread. The recipe in my book does not have canned pimentos; I used a green pepper.

  • Ham and pineapple salad

    • MmeFleiss on October 03, 2015

      Not part of either the ebook nor the 1955 edition.

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  • ISBN 10 0140460276
  • ISBN 13 9780140460278
  • Published Feb 26 1970
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 208
  • Language English
  • Edition New impression
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Books Ltd

Publishers Text

Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, "A Book of Mediterranean Food" is Elizabeth David's passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, David set about to cheer herself - and her audience - up with dishes from the south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and the Middle East. Some are sumptuous, many are simple, most are sublime.

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