This has great recipes for fish and veggies. I have always leaned towards chicken or beef for meals, so it was nice to have so many different recipes.

The photographs in this cookbook are gorgeous! As a pescatarian of many years who has now adopted a Mediterranean way of eating, I thought this book would be exactly what I needed. While the recipes are packed with veggies, it's the types of fish that threw me off. I was looking more for "poor man's fish" such as shrimp, salmon, tuna, cod, catfish, and tilapia. Instead, I found octopus, squid, clams, and oysters. This is a very high-end cookbook geared towards someone who has more time, money, and more adventurous tastebuds than me.

Fantastic recipe book for adding more veggies in with your seafood. Yes the recipes are for more advanced cooks but the book has absolute mouth watering pictures!

What did I like? The cookbook has a Mediterranean feel but I largely acknowledged the Italian dishes. That Gnocchi looked amazing as well as the lasagna. If someone served any of these gorgeous dishes to me I’d not hesitate to eat.

Would I recommend or buy? I would love a copy for my shelf! This book is for brave beginners up to culinary gods. If you have a seafood lover then this would definitely appeal to them. I enjoyed looking at the recipes and amazing photos. Five stars for a beautiful cookbook!

I received a complimentary ecopy to examine and this is a voluntary review! Kudos to the author! Gorgeous book!

Very gourmet, a bit above my pay grade.

This cookbook is beautifully photographed with a photo for every recipe. Olphen gives you lots of info about all kinds of seafood and veggies, and the recipes all seem more than restaurant worthy. They are more elaborate and sophisticated than my usual recipes, but this will be a great book if you really want to impress or eat the kind of meals you might not be able to afford in a restaurant. I appreciated the nutritional information for each recipe, too. This isn't ultimately cookbok that I'd use but it will be a wonderful book for those looking for this type of sophisticated pescatarian recipes.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Beautiful cookbook with some great photos! The recipes look very nice and fancy and they are the kind of food you would order from a nice restaurant. I'm not very good at cooking fish at home so this isn't the best cookbook for me but I would love to try these at a restaurant. The recipes look very colorful and fresh and uses a lot of veggies + seafood. There are recipes for soups, salads, brunch, sandwiches, pastas, grains, stews, bbq, oven, pan and more. The author also teaches the basics like how to open oysters, how to shell shrimp and clean fish. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a book full of fancy seafood cooking. It was much more intensive than I expected. The recipes are not easy weeknight plant-based meals, but rather seafood heavy meals that require some time and knowledge and kitchen gadgets to happen. As someone who isn't super comfortable handling fish at home this book felt a little advanced for me. The recipes are given in cups and grams so you can choose how you measure.

Overall an interesting find, but not for me.

This was an interesting little cookbook, and I appreciated the author's "can-do" attitude about sustainable seafood and responsible consumption.

But I felt like it needed to be dumbed waaaaaay the heck down for me personally. I guess I was hoping for something a little more practical and less gourmand-y. If ruling out at least a third of the recipes because I neither have nor intend to acquire a food processor or immersion blender makes me basic, then I'm happily basic.

More enthusiastic and experienced cooks may find the book better suited to them.