The three most popular food of the Mediterranean

In use the last few years we have are the expression of the Mediterranean diet. the term was coined in but actually by a Harvard Professor Dr. Willett. It is widely used in the 1960s a diet in southern Europe in Spain, Greece, Crete and South Italy. It is distinguished by a high degree of plant food, little red meat and much fish and salads. The most important fat olive oil and there are a lot of cheese, eaten legumes and yogurt for protein. In fact the total content of fat is eaten content less than a quarter of the food intake a much smaller amount than in America.

However, there is no such thing as a Mediterranean diet, the food of the North Italy such as the representative who is food for North Europe, such as Northern Italy in addition to the Austrian Empire; You eat much wheat products and little pasta. In the South there is a pizza and pasta and the people and food are separated by a gap almost as wide as Med and describes the characteristics of only one of 23 countries that straddle the MED.

In Spain, the classical court is one of a Gypsy pot food from the Moors brought paella. There are so many recipes for paella as the people of Spain. Each region has its own speciality and the only thing that unites them is the fact that they contain all short round grain rice. The paella Valencia consists of great seafood and traditionally contains no meat. While the paella of Andalusia has seafood, fish and pork, rabbit or chicken in it.

The eastern shores of the Mediterranean, Cyprus, Turkey, North Africa, Israel have a different Court of hummus is popular. Hummus is a chick pea dip laced with loads of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice, although in some areas it with tahini is a paste of lightly roasted SESAM enriched produced.

Again, this reflects the influence of Arabic as, hummus is the Arabic word for chickpeas; It is to draw the fragrant paste served with traditional flat breads. Some areas of Lebanon and Syria add roasted red peppers, or spinach and sumac Middle Eastern spice.

An other popular Mediterranean food is pasta and it is over a very wide area. Italy has not have the monopoly for pasta the Greeks have a delightful dish out called Pastistio. The classic comfort food I must however be spaghetti and meat balls mean, what is it not like about Spaghetti and meatballs?

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