Clifford A. Wright - Cook and Author Specializing in Italy and the Mediterranean

Winner of the James Beard/ KitchenAid Cookbook of the Year 2000 and Winner of the Beard Award for the Best Writing on Food 2000.

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March 14, 2010

Welcome to your source for the authentic and traditional foods of the Mediterranean in their cultural and historical context illustrated with a thousand heirloom Mediterranean recipes fully-tested in the kitchen of Clifford A. Wright. This is the site for people for whom food is glorious and not fearsome, for people who watch their happiness before they watch their weight, for people who believe that behind every swallow is an insight into who they are. Here is your entry into the world of the most popular cuisines in the world, the world of all the culinary regions of the Mediterranean. You will find the culinary cultures of the Mediterranean offered with the same depth and balance of recipes and their histories as you would in a flavorful bouillabaisse. Cuisine does not spring from nowhere and it does not spring from restaurants. Cuisine is a cultural phenomenon that evolves from real people in kitchens cooking to provide food for their families guided by culture, history, agricultural, and need and wants. Here you will find REAL food. We hope you enjoy the recipes and culinary history posted here.

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Baked Meatloaf in a Pan
Kafta bi’l-Siniyya
(Lamb)
Ground seasoned lamb meatloaf cooked in a pan with potatoes and lemon juice
posted: 02/23/2010

Arancine
Arancine
(Antipasto, Meze, Tapas, and Hors d'Oeuvres)
Deep-fried stuffed balls of rice
posted: 02/18/2010

Rabbit with Vegetable Marmalade
Conill amb Samfaina
(Rabbit and Game)
Rabbit in Catalonian vegetable marmalade called samfaina
posted: 01/28/2010

Beef Tongue in Sweet and Sour Sauce
Lingua all’Agrodolce
(Variety Meats)
Braised beef tongue in the Sicilian Baroque style of sweet and sour
posted: 01/27/2010

Housewife-Style Garlic Soup
Soupe Aïgo Bouïdo à la Ménagère
(Soups)
A simple garlic soup of Provencal housewives
posted: 01/07/2010

Just like what’s happening with barbecue and grilling books (and Italian cookbooks), publishers feel obliged to regularly come out with books covering the same subject over and over again. This is because it is difficult to keep books in print, and older books (with a few exceptions, like The Joy of Cooking) are simply not as marketable as newer books. That said, Wright’s collection of hot and spicy recipes from around the world [Some Like it Hot] is much like the dozens that have come before it. It is comprehensive and the recipes look like they are authentic and complete, with a lot of anecdotal information to delight the reader. ... Anyone who can write a chapter title like “Hot Chicks, Wicked Ducks, and Killer Rabbits” gets a pat on the back from me!
- Dave DeWitt, author of The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia; Fiery-Foods.com

Cucina Paradiso is a wonderfully insightful and refreshingly personal exploration of one of the world’s most exciting cuisines--full of rich, colorful, and highly seasoned dishes unlike any other Italian food you know. The book is also full of fascinating history. Food is the prism through which Clifford Wright views Sicily and Sicilian culture.
- Paula Wolfert, author of Paula Wolfert’s World of Food, Mediterranean Cooking, The Cooking of South-West France, an

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