Memoria Mediterranea

A starting point for understanding what I mean when I talk about Mediterranean culture.

The criteria I use to choose, cook and eat without extremes.

Ideas about food we have repeated for years: what holds up to the facts and what does not.

Looking beyond the front of the package to understand what we are really buying.

Ingredients, seasons and choices that have shaped Mediterranean cooking.

Preparations, techniques and dishes worth cooking again — and passing on.

Because eating is not just about nourishment: gestures, togetherness, family and memory.

The people who preserve a body of knowledge and keep it alive with their own hands.

Products that tell the story of a place through raw materials, history and work.

Places worth knowing because food, people and place come together there as an experience.