Mediterranean cuisine
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Mediterranean cuisine is the food and methods of preparation used by the people of the Mediterranean basin. The idea of a Mediterranean cuisine originates with the cookery writer Elizabeth David's A B
Bread, wine, and fruit: The Lunch by Diego Velázquez, c. 1617
"Those blessed lands of sun and sea and olive trees": a landscape in Rhodes, in the Eastern Mediterranean
Olive (Olea europaea)
Wheat (Triticum)
Italian cuisine
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Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine consisting of the ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques developed in Italy since Roman times, and later spread around the world together with waves of
Mediterranean cuisine
…cuisines, in particular (going anticlockwise around the region) the Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Libyan, Egyptian, Levantine, Ottoman (Turkish), Greek, Italian, French (Provençal), and Spanish, although some authors include additional cuisines. Portuguese cuisine, in particular, is partly Mediterranean in…
Clockwise from top left: Neapolitan pizza, carbonara, espresso, and gelato
A Roman mosaic depicting a banquet during a hunting trip, from the Late Roman Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily
Apicius, De re coquinaria (On the Subject of Cooking), 1709 edition
A restored medieval kitchen inside Verrucole Castle, Tuscany