This book had great recipes and wonderful photos of food, but the photos were not labeled. So it wasn't easy to browse through pages, look a photo of a lovely meal and know what you are looking at to decide if you want to look at the recipe.
Some ingredients might not be commonly used ingredients.
It would be helpful to have nutritional information, since due to health concerns I need to be conscious of fat content and carbs.

This is my 4th! ATK Cookbook - actually, 1 of my 4 cookbooks is their Complete/All About Family Baking recipe book, ha, but I still consider it a “cook” book. My latest ATK cookbook, The Complete Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, is just as great as their other (3) cookbooks - it is everything I’ve come to expect from ATK - full of wonderful, healthy recipes that are easy to follow, along with including great color photos & SO MUCH more helpful information & great tips as well. After reading about how healthy & good for you! following a Mediterranean diet is, I researched different recipe books on the M.D., and NO surprise, America’s Test Kitchen The Complete Mediterranean Diet, overwhelmingly got the best rave reviews. I also LOVE this Lay-it-Flat spiral bound design (this is also my 4th Lay-it-Flat spiral bound book) in a cookbook, as it makes it so easy & convenient to read & follow the recipes, without pages flipping closed, or losing your place, or having it fall apart. Buy the ATK’s The Complete Mediterranean Diet, you won’t be disappointed!!
Maureen M-McGregor

The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook has great recipes that are easy to follow and taste delicious. One of the things I like about this cookbook is that it identifies the countries where the recipes originated. A theme meal could be cooked authentically to one location if that was desired. The recipes include their thoughts about making the recipe and often include substitutions that would also work. I could have made more recipes if I read these notes instead of just looking at the ingredients listed in the recipe. Thinking I couldn’t make something because an ingredient was missing, then finding out later after actually reading the notes before the recipe that the substitutions were on hand was a learning experience. Great cookbook especially if you take a few extra minutes to actually read the recipes!

Purchased this cookbook for my wife and daughter so that they can make some dinners together for the family. I haven’t looked at the book myself, but my wife has thumbed through it and has stated that she was very impressed by the layout. What she really made note of was that it gave a list of the staples necessary to make many of the recipes. Though we have yet to eat one of the meals, I am hopeful that it will be good as we have a Mexican recipe book, also from America’s Test Kitchen, which we thoroughly enjoy.