The Ikaria Way: 100 Delicious Plant-Based Recipes Inspired by My Homeland, the Greek Island of Longevity

Diane Kochilas' new cookbook that brings the plant-based cuisine of Ikaria to your dinner table.Ikaria is an island in Greece where people live to a ripe old age, sometimes living well past 100.Diane Kochilas, host of the television series My Greek Table, is a daughter of Ikaria.The Ikaria Way is her latest cookbook and is filled with easy, contemporary recipes rooted in her background and steeped in the ancient Greek traditions of plant-based cuisine.As Diane says, Greeks are almost vegan, but they’d never call themselves that.The array of plant-based dishes in the Greek diet is unsurpassed anywhere else in the Mediterranean.Diane’s pantry, and the one she suggests for readers, is culled from the traditions of the Mediterranean and is full of ingredients that have long given food its flavor: herbs, olive oil, nuts, and more.