Creative cooking – Mediterranean style

If you wish to do something for yourselves it is sufficient to open the door to a new cuisine, the one we are presenting in this book. It is not only a new cuisine but a whole new world, life-style and philosophy. You will discover the magic Mediterranean world that combines tradition with up-to-date achievements. The culinary heritage and the rules of nutrition are combined in a cuisine that takes all that is best from traditional and modern style cooking, making it a world you shall fall in love with at first sight. On the other hand, you will stay in love with this world due to the pleasures and fine tastes you have discovered and experienced. The simplicity of preparing food according to the given recipes, the pleasure of the taste, aromas and colors, but first of all the awareness that you are doing something good for yourselves will open your senses to a new gastronomic philosophy that will make your family members, your friends and guests be placed in a very special position, and you will be pleased knowing that you have done a lot to make the future for you and all of them healthier and tastier.

Olive oil, fish and seafood, red wine and bevanda, homemade cheese and pasta, truffles and swiss chard, aromatic healing herbs and spices are only some of the authentic characteristic products used in the Mediterranean cuisine. On the other hand, your skill in cooking and the variety of combinations your imagination construes shall make your meals rich in all aspects and give them a new dimension. Pleasure at table, health and vitality are just some of the benefits and blessings you can pass over to others; the people you care about.

The world we are presenting is a secret treasury of Mediterranean products made more precious by their immplementation in recipes of the well-known Croatian culinary artist and oficially awarded Viljam Cvek, the European king of chefs. The man who has celebrated our cuisine in the gastronomic world not only presents the well-known values of the Mediterranean style of cooking but adds his creativity to make these recipes even more valuable. His treasure box contains many secrets that he is unselfishly sharing with us. But the recipes in this book do not always stick to tradition, nor are they always strictly Mediterranean. The choice of dishes, the choice of ingredients, the chef’s variations and specific details give us a picture of Cvek’s personality as that of a true connosseur and inhabitant of the Mediterranean region. On the other hand, his affinity for gastronomic pleasures has enabled him to find a unique way in combining the always excellent PODRAVKA products in order to get the best results.