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The New Mediterranean Table

By February 5, 2016January 16th, 2026No Comments

Librarians Megan Kocher and Lisa Von Drasek review The New Mediterranean Table cookbook in this installment of Read This Book! from the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Chef Sameh Wadi, author of The New Mediterranean Table, was a semifinalist for the James Beard Foundation “Best Chef ” and “Rising Star” awards and was the youngest contestant to appear on the Food Network’s “Iron Chef America.”

Books reviewed include:

About Von Drasek and Kocher

Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Kocher is a science librarian and the curator of the Doris S. Kirschner Cookbook Collection at the University of Minnesota Libraries.

About Read This Book!

Read This Book! is a video podcast produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries. It is available on YouTube and iTunes.

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