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    Crete, at the table. The books by the foreigner who writes this guide.

    The Out of Office series

    The cover of Out of Office by Leo Novak: a plate drawn as a pie chart of vegetables, legumes, olive oil, fruit, fish and nuts on a tomato-red background.

    Book one · Out November 10, 2026

    Out of Office

    Back to Healthy Roots — A Mediterranean Diet Guide & Cookbook: 61 Recipes, Real Science, and One Burned-Out Executive's Escape

    A burned-out tech executive brings his Cretan in-laws’ Sunday table into his city kitchen, then all the way to the island. Sixty-one traditional recipes, the real history, and the honest science of the Mediterranean diet. You don’t have to move to Greece.

    The book, a sample recipe, and the free Starter Kit →

    Next

    Book two is in progress: protein, the Mediterranean way. If you’d like to hear when it’s ready, the sign-up on the Out of Office page is the one place I announce it.