Mediterranean Feast The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean, from the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs With More Than 500 recipe

"[T]he book reads less like a work of considered historical investigation than like a doctoral thesis, in which chunks of hastily digested material, peppered with pedantic...footnotes, have been roughly knit together with a plodding and often testy prose....Wright simply has no sense of when enough is enough. Unfortunately, this is just one symptom of the book's pervasive flaw--an overarching conviction that his readers can't be trusted to understand what he is getting at and, in consequence, a relentless determination to pound each and every point into our thick heads....Even so, what a splendid trove of recipes it is...."Wright, Clifford A. is the author of 'Mediterranean Feast The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean, from the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs With More Than 500 recipe' with ISBN 9780688153052 and ISBN 0688153054.