MEDITERRANEAN SEAFOOD: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE WITH RECIPES. By Alan Davidson.

(1972) 2002 new pbk edn. Paperback. Pp432. B/w illustrations, map, extensive bibliography, French-fold covers.

Two-hundred Mediterranean fish recipes, classic and obscure. New revised edition". A handbook giving the names in seven languages of 150 species of fish, with 50 crustaceans, molluscs and other marine creatures, and an essay on fish cookery, with over 200 recipes from the Mediterranean and Black Sea countries. This classic ...is at once a cookery book and a hungry naturalist's guide to the edible marine life of the Mediterranean sea". Davidson was a career diplomat who joined the Foreign Office after wartime service in the RNVR. Much of his writing explores the cuisine of the places he worked in. Mediterranean Seafood (with Giorgio Bini) was Davidson's first published book. It began life as the privately issued Seafood of Tunisia and the Central Mediterranean which he wrote for his wife when they were living in Tunis.