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Pizza: Nature’s Most Nearly Perfect Food?

2023-03-22
By: Maggie
On: March 22, 2023
In: Mediterranean Mysteries, Pizza Wisdom and Lore

I don’t know what it is about Pizza… My post idea for today started as a recent upsurge in Pizza ‘innovation’ and crossovers, etc. But it quickly turned into a much larger and wider investigation probing the psychology of the ‘Universal Pie’…Read More →

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Med Diet Trifecta: Three Good News Studies In One Week

2023-03-16
By: Maggie
On: March 16, 2023
In: Food News, Food Tips, Mediterranean Mysteries

We occasionally team up stories with each other in one post when they have something in common. This week, it’s a trio of new studies on the Mediterranean Diet which have revealed further benefits in widely separated parts of the diet and nutrition spectrum…Read More →

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Formal Italian Dining: A Guide To All Those Courses

2023-03-15
By: Maggie
On: March 15, 2023
In: Comfort Food, Food Tips, Mediterranean Mysteries

I kind of let the finer points of Italian dining culture slip by me until I was in my 40s. That was before I became formally interested in food and cooking. And I thought spaghetti and meatballs, veal scallopini, Chef Boyardee ravioli, and pizza were about the extent of it…Read More →

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Starbuck’s Adds Olive Oil To Coffee – For History And Health

2023-02-27
By: Maggie
On: February 27, 2023
In: Chef Secrets, Mediterranean Mysteries

My bogus product and silly menu item detectors went ‘Boinnng!’ simultaneously when I read the Starbuck’s news release about its latest idea: A spoonful of olive oil helps the coffee go down. But it’s backed by historical and medical rationales…Read More →

Expedition To Saudi Arabia: More Than You Realized!

2021-04-01
By: Maggie
On: April 1, 2021
In: Comfort Food, Mediterranean Mysteries

So… You’ve watched a few movies where the hero walks into the tent-palace of a Saudi sheik who serves up a huge feast of roasted meats stacked on mammoth platters of savoury rice, and you think you know all about Saudi Arabian food. Think again! There’s much more to it than that…Read More →

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Expedition to Libya: Ancient, Exotic, Unexpected…

2021-03-26
By: Maggie
On: March 26, 2021
In: Comfort Food, Food Tips, Mediterranean Mysteries

If you look at a traditional map of North Africa, Libya looks pretty desolate: Not many main roads showing and not many major cities. “Well,” you reason. “It is in the middle the Sahara Desert…” And you may not bother to look closer. But it’s an ancient and mysterious land that deserves our attention…Read More →

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