Elara Veylin

Elara Veylin is a chef who spent many years cooking in Greece and Spain.

Her cookbooks are anti-inflammatory, low-sugar Mediterranean cooking, without strict rules or hard-to-find ingredients. Most of her recipes cook in 30 minutes or less and use what is already at your local US or UK supermarket.

Every book includes a meal plan, so you always know what to cook next.

What she saw in Mediterranean kitchens

In those kitchens and markets she fell in love with Mediterranean food. The locals ate simply: olive oil, vegetables, fish, beans, herbs and lemon, cooked fresh and shared at the table. Many of them looked years younger than their age and stayed active well into old age.

Then she felt it herself

The heaviness after meals disappeared, her energy came back, and her body felt lighter and calmer. That experience became the heart of her cookbooks.

A chef, not a doctor

Elara is a chef, not a doctor or dietitian. She shares what she learned in Mediterranean kitchens and encourages readers to check their own eating plan with their doctor.

How a recipe gets into a book

The method is checked against how the best-known recipe sites cook the same dish, and every difference is on purpose. Then each card is read line by line before print: the order of the ingredients, the times, the temperatures, and whether the numbers add up.

The numbers on each page are worked out from the ingredient list and divided by the servings. None of them are typed in by hand. How we count.

Whether these figures suit you is a question for your doctor or a registered dietitian, not for a cookbook.