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Mediterranean Weekly Weather

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:00:25 +0000

Weather Warnings valid till 06Z on Sasturday 4th September 2010

N-Tunisia, Sicily, S-Italy and the Tyrrhenian Sea: A pool of extremely moist air is present south of Sicily, which advects northwards. Persistent influx of high moisture content from the south yields a favourable set-up for long-lived and large thunderstorm clusters with an excessive rainfall risk over a broad area. Life-threatening rainfall amounts beneath training/slow moving storms are forecast in a very efficient environment for prolific rainfall producers.

Further to the south, more discrete storm structures are forecast with giant hail, tornadoes and damaging wind gusts. Storm coverage becomes more isolated in nature, but storms could produce extremely severe events.

The exact path of highest rainfall amounts remains quite unclear, as models have significant problems in handling the amount of latent heat release/convection.

Weather Forecast: Week Monday 30th August to Sunday 5th September 2010

Isolated rain showers possibly heavy and thundery at times over Italy and the Balkans from Monday to Wednesday, with this bad weather then affecting Turkey and the eastern Mediterranean on Wednesday and Thursday.

More isolated rain showers and thunderstorms are expected over Italy, the Balkans and western Turkey over the weekend. Isolated rain showers or thunderstorms are also expected over Spain and northern Algeria for most of the week with northern Tunisia being similarly affected from Wednesday onwards.

It is expected to be windy over the western and central Mediterranean on Monday and Tuesday, in the Adriatic on Tuesday and Wednesday, and in the Aegean on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.

More detailed weather information can be found on www.mediterraneanweather.com

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Gourmet food baskets: la creme de la creme

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:28:18 +0000

Here we present some gourmet food baskets packed full with the most delicious foods. We can always find an enticing excuse for purchasing a gourmet food basket: a celebration of Mediterranean diet food, your spouse birthday, a long-awaited anniversary...

In association with Amazon® this store of Gourmet Food Baskets makes it easy for you to purchase the best and most delectable gourmet food online with the guarantee of a very reputable store.

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Cool Med Radio France Now Online

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:03:58 +0000

Click HERE to listen to Cool Med Radio France

Cool Med Radio Spain Now Online

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:02:32 +0000

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Mediterranean diet cookbook review: Authentic Mediterranean recipes.

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:36:18 +0000

In association with Amazon® this Mediterranean Diet Ccookbook Store, which also includes fantastic recipe books from the Middle East makes it easy for you to buy the best mediterranean cookbooks online with the guarantee of a very reputable store.

This Mediterranean diet cookbook by Colman Andrews, Catalan Cuisine, Europe's last great culinary secret, is the best Bible of Catalan cuisine in English by far.

It contains more than 200 recipes of the acclaimed Catalan cuisine, which was the embodiment of the Mediterranean cooking ways and the Mediterranean diet long... long before Ancel Keys coined this term.

What makes this Mediterranean diet cookbook specially captivating and interesting is that Mr. Andrews is not happy with presenting a dry collection of recipes, he's more enthusiastic than that.

Rarely does a food writer display such vigorous curiosity, refined taste, and sense of adventure. Here is an intelligent, superbly written, profound study of a great and fascinating cuisine, and an absolute rare phenomenon -a cookbook that reads like a novel. This opens a whole new era in cookbook writing.
Paula Wolfert, Mediterranean diet expert and food writer

First, the author briefly introduces the reader to Catalan history, language and culture, including all the Catalan-speaking countries. You'll learn that Catalunya has "a complex and sophisticated system of recipes and techniques, first codified as early as the fourteenth century." Romans, Visigoths, Moors, and later Italian and French, all left their imprint in Catalonia and its cuisine.
Secondly, the author comments on the main ingredients, raw materials and specialties of Catalan cuisine and features their uses and qualities from the gastronomical point of view. What makes this Mediterranean diet cookbook very valuable is that Colman Andrews tells the American reader when an ingredient or raw material is not available in the USA and suggests sensible substitutions. Regarding fish and mushrooms, for instance, his comments are invaluable.
Third, next to the traditional Catalan cuisine Mediterranean recipes passed on from mother to daughter for generations, in this Mediterranean diet cookbook you'll find refined but authentic copycat restaurant recipes Colman Andrews collected from his many Catalan chef friends.

Mr. Andrews has a weakness for the coastal Empord? region, known as the Costa Brava by many of you. Fair enough, as the Empord? boasts a delicious cuisine that invented Mar i muntanya, Sea and mountain dishes, a delight unique to Catalan cuisine.

Unlike surf'n'turf, though, it doesn't merely pose its main elements next to each other awkwardly on a plate ("Say... what's this shrimp doing here"): It cooks them in each other's flavors, it marries them -becoming thus symbolic of the Empord?'s own happy confluence of land and sea.
Colman Andrews, from Catalan Cuisine

This Mediterranean diet cookbook faithfully features what we eat and how we cook in Mediterranean Catalonia, without pretenses, current trends or disguises.

Here you can buy Catalan Cuisine, an authentic Mediterranean diet cookbook by Colman Andrews that reflects the natural Mediterranean diet that I strive to present in this web site.

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Pasta alla Norma by guest author

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:44:18 +0000

by Enrico Forte

I am happy to present you an authentic Sicilian recipe for pasta by a Sicilian guest author. A pasta recipe related to opera!

This is a typical Sicilian Recipe of the city of Catania. Catania is a big Sicilian city established between the Etna Volcano and the Jonian sea.

The recipe's name derives from the "Norma", a popular opera composed by Vincenzo Bellini.

As a typical Mediterranean recipe, it's a "Unique Plate".

It mixes up the healthy benefits of pasta (usually Macaroni) with sheep's cheese (Ricotta) and eggplants.

It's also a low calorie plate, it counts 520-540 kcal per portion.

Tomato sauceBasil3 Eggplants700 gr. of Pasta (Macaroni or Spaghetti)Salty sheep's cheese (Ricotta Salata)
After having prepared the tomato sauce aromatized with basil, take three beautiful Sicilian eggplants, let them lose their bitter taste, hold them under salt for approximately an hour in a colander, then fry them in hot oil.
Boil 700 gr. of pasta, drains and season them with the tomato sauce.
In every portion add the minced eggplants and over with the salty cottage cheese.

That's it! Healthy and easy!

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Mediterranean Diet Planners

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:56:12 +0000

Kevin Stith asked:

The Mediterranean diet is not a definite diet program but rather, changing over to eating habits that were traditionally followed by people of the Mediterranean region. The Mediterranean diet is a type of diet plan that has its name derived from the countries that border the Mediterranean Sea. The Mediterranean diet comprises of foods such as cereals, grains, vegetables, dried beans, olive oil, garlic, fresh herbs, seafood, and fruits. Mediterranean diet planners are the nutritionists or dieticians who recommend people with health problems follow a Mediterranean diet.

They plan a specific diet for people with faulty eating habits that can culminate in obesity and other ailments. They focus upon a diet rich in fiber. This intake is naturally contained in fresh herbs, seafood, and fruits and vegetables. People are encouraged to follow a modified Mediterranean diet in which unsaturated fats are substituted with monounsaturated fats, as there is evidence that these ensure longer life expectancy.

Mediterranean diet planners highlight the importance of using olive oil as a cooking medium and dressings for salads. They plan meals that include moderate amounts of fish and meat and low to moderate amounts of cheese and yogurt. They focus on a meal rich in the consumption of fruits, vegetables, potatoes, beans, nuts, seeds, bread and other cereals. The meals also include consumption of wine in moderation.

The diet planners gain information from their patients, before formulating a Mediterranean diet plan for an individual. They acknowledge personal tastes and preferences when they plan a diet for a week or a month. They also make changes in the daily menu, which ensures that the patients are not deprived of their favorite foods and enjoy their daily Mediterranean cuisine with relish.

The planners do not advice people to strictly adhere to the Mediterranean diet but to enjoy a change that rejuvenates their health.

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The Mediterranean Diet: What the Greeks Know about Healthy Cuisine

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:04:44 +0000

James Zeller asked:

"If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want." -- Elbert Hubbard.

There are so many approaches to optimum wellness. Infomercials tell us about a variety of diet plans from pills and native plants to the benefits of liquid diets over conventional weight loss methods. What should you believe?

One of the clarion calls of caution is the old adage, "If it's too good to be true - it probably is."

The Mediterranean Diet relies solely on age old wisdom. Present research verification demonstrates that one man's daily meal is another man's trip to optimum wellness.

In Greece, certain symptoms of heart disease are among the lowest in the world. It would seem that the largest body of current scientific research indicates that a diet high in fruits and veggies along with routine consumption of whole grains, legumes, fish, low fat dairy products, olive oil and nuts provide long term and protective health benefits.

With the Mediterranean diet you will find that optimal health is even more important than the accompanying weight loss. What native Greek's have intuitively known for centuries has now been linked to scientific data that shows adherence to common Mediterranean diet practices may result in a reduction in heart disease, increased life expectancy and reduced risk of some cancers. The health benefits of olive oil have long been realized in Greece.

The term "Mediterranean Diet" truly is a generic term because the diet in Greece remains varied. You will find influences from North Africa and Italy in many Greek dishes, however the island of Crete has proven a veritable treasure trove of health research. Residents of Crete have one of the lowest heart disease risks in the world.

Interestingly, western culture is looking into the health benefits found in countries like Greece, but many of the younger population in Greece are seeking out western cuisine. The trend has proven somewhat antithetical to the wellness experienced by older Greeks. While parents are consuming melons, stuffed tomatoes, salads and yogurt, the younger Greek generation are consuming cookies, hamburgers, French fries, pizza and pop. The result is an increase in obesity among Greek's youth culture - researchers expect to see an accompanying rise in heart disease in the years to come.

With the Mediterranean diet, butter is replaced with the health benefits of olive oil, fast food lunches are replaced by a variety of fresh vegetables - snacks of chocolate and colas are replaced by fresh fruit and nuts.

Perhaps the reason you don't hear as much about the Mediterranean diet as you might other weight loss plans is that there is no special pill to buy, no special formula to drink and no 12-step meal plan to purchase.

The Mediterranean diet works because common sense prevails in eating choices and a rise in HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol) is an indicator they are doing something right. The health benefits of olive oil cannot be overstated and traditional Greek cooking utilizes garden fresh produce and extra virgin olive oil. In tandem, this common sense approach continues to see a lower incidence of heart disease and colon cancer along with an increase in life expectancy and a decrease in overall weight.

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admin — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:41:19 +0000

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The Mediterranean Diet Can Change Your Life

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:07:53 +0000

Dan Snow asked:

As someone who has lived in the South of France and enjoyed the Mediterranean diet for a long period of time, I cannot give enough praise to this way of eating and looking at food. The time tested philosophy of Mediterranean cuisine is quite simply: Food, like life, is to be savored.

The Mediterranean countries of Spain, France Italy, Greece and much of North Africa are constantly reminding us that food and eating is intended to be an art. Too often we forget this, and we eat only as a daily requirement and not for pleasure. In the Mediterranean diet, it's not just the food that's special, but also the way in which food is prepared, served, shared and savored. It's true that the basic ingredients that make up this diet (i.e., fish, fresh fruits and vegetables, olive oil, nuts, cheese and red wine) are quite healthy - there's really no debate about that. But what is also important is the cultural significance of eating, and the time that is spent preparing and enjoying the experience. You will almost never encounter a rushed meal around a Mediterranean dinner table. Meals linger for hours, as delicious fresh food is eaten slowly and savored.

The Mediterranean diet is not a fad diet, but rather a way of life. It's an extremely healthy alternative to crash regimens and crazy workout routines, and the best part about it is that it's simple to incorporate into your own life. All you need to do is eat from the Mediterranean food pyramid, and recommit yourself to changing your philosophy regarding food. Once you start reaping the health benefits of Mediterranean cuisine, you will regret you didn't start earlier. Most diets are unhealthy and unnatural, so why put your body through that unneeded stress. Enjoy the flavor and satisfaction that comes from cooking Mediterranean diet recipes.

Another critical component of the Mediterranean diet is freshness. It is essential to note that people who live by this cuisine use natural, fresh ingredients. Very little food consumed in this diet is packaged or processed. It's natural, fresh and almost always native to the region. This goes not only for the produce, but the meat, fish and dairy products as well.

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