I'll just be honest here and say that for the majority of my adult life, I really didn't enjoy cooking. Too many ingredients, too time-consuming, and too many dishes to clean. After a trip to Greece, I decided Greek food will forever be my favorite, and a sudden urge to try to cook similar dishes hit me. The internet provided some good recipes, and others were failures. I stumbled upon Mina Stone's Lemon, Love & Olive Oil cookbook on social media and the rest is history...My personal copy of this book is stained and dog-eared from use. It's my go-to book for every day of the week, with simple ingredients I usually have in my kitchen, the healthiest of recipes, and it has given me a love of cooking I hope to never lose. I cannot recommend this cookbook enough if you're in a kitchen rut. Each recipe is prefaced by memories from the author, a Greek self-taught chef famously known for her gallery dinners in the art world.
Lemon, Love & Olive Oil is warm, welcoming, and not intimidating at all. I encourage anyone who loves Greek food to check it out.