Recommended in "A Basic List of Recommended Books and Journals for Support of Clinical Dentistry in a Nondental Library" in Bulletin Of the Medical Library Association, July 1997. However, the lack of a recnet edition is dissapointing.

i loved the book but there were too many Spanish recipes for my taste. As I live in Spain not too usefull. however anyone wanting mediterranean food would find it of use.

This book is an absolute joy - obviously Sam & Sam really love their food; using all natural ingredients, (but not to the extremes of Crank's) they re-create the recipes they found during a 3-month trip round Spain, Morocco and Algeria, prior to setting up their 'Moro' restaurant in the UK.

They bake their own sourdough bread every day, using their own sourdough yeast, make their own yogurt and somehow find ingredients that most of us have never heard of (but they give a comprehensive list of suppliers at the back).

The recipes are simply described, with lots of practical advice and little anecdotes about their discovery of the recipes in tiny restaurants - for example, queuing up outside a hole in the wall that only sold lentil soup! But what a soup!

Think Spain - think paella (usually a hotch-potch of rice and everything thrown in to produce a gluey mass) - but this book resets that impression with a series of recipes that are light, tasty, unusual and definitely NOT stodgy!

Beautifully illustrated and lovingly written, you really feel the atmosphere of the Spanish/Muslim cookery surrounding you as you get drawn, drooling, into this gorgeous book.

This is a very poorly written and disappointing work. It does not offer any new insights and is just a rehashing of old ideas.

One very unsettling aspect of Kliman's work is the way he ascribes sexual motives to the behavior of his young clients. He does not appear to sympathize with his clients and his work is an exercise in repetition. Another disturbing element of his work is the slap happy, overly permissive nursery he launched in 1965. Permissiveness often undermines authority and does not encourage responsibility. The sad part is that permissiveness does not speak to respect in general; the underlying message is one of having low expectations, therefore allow undesirable behavior to continue with impunity.

This is a complete waste and contributes nothing.