The Mediterranean cookbook

Mediterranean food, with the olive oil counted in teaspoons.

14 days on 14 coasts, from Crete to Sardinia. 70 recipes and 14 drinks, each written twice: a gentle version for the weeks after a flare, a steady one for when you’re stable.

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Cover of the cookbook 14 Days Around the Mediterranean, Low Fat, with 6 of its dishes
135 pages. Metric and US measures, A4 and US Letter.

A Greek salad swims in oil. Now what?

A tablespoon of olive oil is 13.5 g of fat. 2 tablespoons over a salad, which is a normal pour, is 27 g. On a gentle day that’s the whole budget, gone on one salad.

So I took the kitchen apart and rebuilt it around a fat budget.

The fish, the lemon, the herbs and the bread stay. The oil gets a teaspoon, raw, at the end, where you can taste it. The wine goes.

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How it works

2 dials on every recipe

Gentle runs at 21.4 to 25.7 g of fat a day, for the first weeks home. Steady runs at 40.5 to 47.4 g, for when you’re stable. Same dish, a few things added back.

The numbers per serving

Fat, calories, saturated fat, protein, carbs, fibre and added sugar, for both dials.

An oil meter

It shows how much olive oil one serving gets, in half teaspoons.

The day already added up

Breakfast, 2 snacks, lunch, dinner, a drink and the pre-bed snack. The fat total sits under the day table.

No alcohol, in the glass or the pan

Where the traditional recipe uses wine, I use broth and lemon, and I say so.

3 to 6 steps, nothing fried

If you can boil water and set an oven, you can cook all of it.

See the pages before you pay

Real pages from the cookbook: a day, a recipe, and 4 more below.

The day page for day 1, Crete: every meal with its fat on the gentle and the steady dial, and the day total

A day page: every meal, the fat on both dials, and the day total. Tap to open it full size.

A recipe page: Cretan dry-pan cheese pie with honey, with the photo, the numbers per serving, the oil meter, ingredients and method

A recipe page: photo, numbers for both dials, the oil meter, and what I took out of the traditional version.

The opening page of day 1, Crete, with the 6 dishes of the dayWeek one at a glance: 7 days with the fat per mealThe route: a map of the 14 coasts around the MediterraneanThe Mediterranean diet pyramid, rebuilt for a pancreas

A day opener, week one at a glance, the route, and the pyramid rebuilt.

Stepan in the car with his dog Pasha looking over the seat
Me and Pasha.
Stepan in an intensive care bed in May 2023, a heart monitor behind him
Day 6 in intensive care, May 2023.

Who wrote it

I’m Stepan. 2 hospital stays with severe pancreatitis, in 2023 and 2025. I’ve cooked since I was 15, some of it in restaurant kitchens.

My hospital dietitian gave me 20 to 30 g of fat a day for the first weeks, twice. Mediterranean food is what I like most, so I rebuilt 70 dishes to fit that number.

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What you get for $29

  • 135 pages: 14 days, each on a different coast, from Crete to Sardinia.
  • 70 recipes and 14 drinks with no alcohol in them, plus a Virgin Mary.
  • Both weeks at a glance, and a shopping list for each.
  • A restaurant card, and 3 sentences for ordering abroad in 6 languages.
  • Metric and US measures, A4 and US Letter. All 4 files are yours.

14 Days Around the Mediterranean, Low Fat

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Are these the recipes from the book or the 7-Day Meal Plan?

No. None of these 70 recipes is in the book or in the 7-Day Meal Plan. These are different dishes.

Which phase is it for?

Both. The gentle dial is for the first 6 to 8 weeks home after a flare. The steady dial is for when you’re stable. You can cook the gentle version and add one steady item at a time.

Does eating Mediterranean treat pancreatitis?

The cookbook doesn’t claim that. One chapter spells out what the research shows and where it stops.

I take enzymes, or I have diabetes from my pancreas.

Then the steady dial is a conversation with your team first. The fat per serving is printed on every recipe for exactly that reason.

I’m a member of the Skool group. Does my code work?

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How do I get it?

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What if it’s not for me?

Reply to your receipt within 30 days and ask for your money back. You keep the files.

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