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Mediterranean Sunday dinners

A working shorthand rather than a country: the cooking of the olive-oil belt, from the Levant through Greece and southern Italy to Spain and North Africa. What these dinners share is a structure — a grain or bread, several vegetable dishes, something grilled or roasted, and acid somewhere on every plate. It is the easiest tradition to cook for a mixed table, because the meat is one dish among many rather than the point of the meal.

10 plans in the Sunday Gallery.

What Mediterranean plans look like

Most common mains

  • chicken4
  • fish3
  • lamb1
  • shellfish1
  • vegetarian1

How they're cooked

  • Pan-seared4
  • Grilled3
  • Roasted2
  • Baked1

The plans

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