About the Author

Paula Wolfert is an expert on Mediterranean food and the author of nine cookbooks, including The Food of Morocco, Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking, The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen, and The Cooking of Southwest France. Wolfert has won the James Beard Award, the Julia Child Award, the M. F. K. Fisher Award, and the Tastemaker Award, and was a finalist for the Andr� Simon Award. A regular columnist for Food & Wine, Wolfert lives in Sonoma, California.

Reviews

"Wolfert ... is blessed with a passion for food, an unerring eye and palate and an enviable ability to transport her reader to the ends of the earth." -- Jean Anderson, "Food & Wine""The arrival of a new Paula Wolfert book is, to paraphrase Escoffier on the discovery of a new dish, like discovering a new star in the firmament." -- Suzanne Hamlin, "Washington Post""When Paula Wolfert discovers a place and its palate, America usually follows." -- Molly Oneill, "New York Times""[Wolfert] is the queen of Mediterranean cookery." -- Russ Parsons, "Los Angeles Times""Paula is part anthropologist, part amateur scholar ... and part culinary interpreter, often improving a dish she has eaten--but always telling us exactly how she has changed it. And Paula is a very good cook. If her food were not delicious, I would be much less interested in the rest." -- Jeffrey Steingarten, "Vogue""Paula is passionate about food, and a tireless pursuer. She works in a way that's both sensual and scholarly. She isn't content until she knows not only how your olives were made, but also where you got them, what you did with them, what else you did with them, and whether your friends are doing the same thing. And then she'll call your friends, too." -- Alice Waters