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Cooking with fire dates back to our Paleolithic ancestors. In fact, cooking over an open flame is thought to be a pivotal step in human evolution. The...
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Functional foods tend to have a scientific allure about them and are heavily featured in marketing campaigns. However, the reality is that many...
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Many ingredients recognized as “superfoods” today, like green tea, seaweed, kimchi, and mushrooms draw their roots in traditional Asian diets. With a...
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There are few better ways to get to know a place and its people than through its food. Skip the fancy restaurants written up in guidebooks, and look...
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Porter Gifford (right), son of K. Dun Gifford, awarding Rebecca Alssid (left) with the K. Dun Gifford Local Hero Award, with Readable Feast co-director...
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When talking about cultures and traditions from around the world, it’s often their differences that tend to hog the spotlight, making it easy to...
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Crete is the largest and most populated of the Greek Islands. Look on a map and you’ll find Crete at the southernmost point of the Greek archipelago,...
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The PREDIMED study, first published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2013, was a landmark clinical trial demonstrating the Mediterranean diet...
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We put a special spotlight on the Mediterranean Diet for International Mediterranean Diet Month , but we encourage everyone to appreciate its foods...
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At the peak of summer when the garden is in full bloom, there is no better way to celebrate the season than to incorporate your favorite summer...
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Nope, we’re not talking about the beautiful ceramics from Morocco or Vietri sul Mare. Today, we’re exploring the delicious Mediterranean foods served...
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Olive trees are among the oldest cultivated trees in history, supporting Mediterranean civilizations for at least 6,000 years. Though it’s speculated...

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