Mediterranean Women Stay Slim, Too: Eating to Be Sexy, Fit, and Fabulous! by Melissa Kelly

Author:Melissa Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: 9780060854218, # Publisher: Collins Living

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Contents

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Alpha

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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

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To the Market and in the Garden

95

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Tapas Tastings: Color, More Flavor,

Texture, Aroma

113

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Going Whole Grain

131

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Madonna of Moderation

150

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To the Table, Famiglia

175

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Water and Wine

197

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Take It or Leave It

218

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What’s Good for Your Heart

236

13

Nothing New Under the Sun

254

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Artigiano

265

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Baklava and Biscotti

283

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Long Life!

311

Omega

319

Index

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About the Author

Credits

Cover

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Alpha

You don’t have to speak Greek to know that alpha symbolizes beginnings. The first letter of the Greek alphabet, alpha implies potential and all that lies ahead. To me, alpha also represents the beginning of a journey, a transformation, and an adventure.

Are you feeling adventurous? Are you ready for a change in your life? Do you want to come along with me?

Where would you like to go, and how would you like to look and feel when you get there? Are you thinking southern France, where chic French women spend hours browsing through the local open-air market to find the perfect piece of fruit? How do they find the time, and how do they acquire such good taste?

How do they prepare food so that it is just perfectly délicieux?

Maybe Italy is more your style, with its passion, gusto, and boisterous meals that last for hours con la tua famiglia. Or perhaps you are enchanted by the thought of Barcelona, where you can sip sherry and nibble on tapas and gaze upon the magnifi-

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cent architecture with your animated Spanish friends. Esto está eccelente! Or maybe you imagine yourself as a Greek goddess with gorgeous curves and flowing robes, strolling through the ruins of an ancient civilization: Paradeisos. Maybe you like the idea of exotic Morocco, with its alluring spices and mysteriously compelling people? Tagine, anyone? I could go on and on . . . but perhaps you are starting to see the lay of the land.

Whatever your Mediterranean dream, maybe you, like me, think about this part of the world with longing and wonder because you sense that somehow life is different around that blue-green sun-drenched sea, different than it is here in America.

And you would be right . . . in a way. But in another way, you can capture that Mediterranean essence—that lifestyle and that passion—without ever booking passage to Marseille or Valencia or Naples. You can live in the Mediterranean spirit right here, creating the timeless beauty and commonsense joy of living so famously captured in the independent flight of the Venus Winged Victory, the playfulness of Mona Lisa’s smile, the classic features of Helen of Troy and Sophia Loren!

What lies ahead for you as you embark on that journey into your own life, attitudes, and kitchen? The journey starts with you, but it will take you to faraway places. No, we won’t literally be going anywhere, but in spirit we will be relaxing in the sun and gazing at the sapphire expanse of water to better learn the secrets of that widely varied collection of cultures where women have a rhythm of life, eating, moving, and socializing that isn’t quite like anywhere else on the planet.

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