About

John Hobbins is Professor and past Chief of Obstetrics
at Yale and the University of Colorado. As a pioneer in
obstetrical ultrasound he has lectured around the world.
During these trips, and while living in Italy on sabbatical, he
developed a keen interest in the foods of the Mediterranean.
John always has had a passion to be a chef and, perhaps,
to even own a restaurant. However, a heady, but incredibly
stressful, one-night stand spent “on the line” in the kitchen
of a friend’s restaurant quickly quashed this fantasy. Instead,
his insatiable desire to cook has been fulfilled during his
day job by creating weekly lunches for his team in his quasi kitchen at the Platte River Perinatal Center in downtown Denver.
The recipes in this book represent 10 years’ worth of the
staff’s favorites.