Return to the Mediterranean Abandoned houses in Amioun, Lebanon, owing to legal nightmares: the heirs are dispersed across Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Mexico, & the US.
Category: Return to the Med
Preparation for my trip next week, my own “return to the Med”.
Make Lebanon Mediterranean Again #MakeLebanonMediterraneanAgain And for our other Med brothers in the Levant #MakeTheLevantMediterraneanAgain
He was Med that’s not Middle Eastern
I did not write this, but I almost thought I did. The Nation state killed Mediterranean cosmopolitanism. Some in #Antifragile
Siesta Genetically, Meds are not made for the sun. 6000-3000 years is not enough. Their skin wrinkles.
The French have a much more concise way to express it: “Voir Naples[Venise] et mourir”
I tried pasta. Best ingredients, so went for fresh pasta. Failed miserably with fresh pasta: was not aldente, rather the reverse. Wonder why dried pasta is better than fresh.
One of their olive oil suppliers told me it was the most reliable brand in America. In tests they were among the 4/~30 who did not cheat with their claims of extra virgin.
Traduttore Traditore! Dumas in Cte de Montecristo: “condemned for 5 m to Italian cuisine, one of the WORST in the world”. While waiting for the mailed hard copy, was trying to read it online in Italian: “una delle piu MEDIOCRI cucine del mondo” The French are Germanics who think they are Mediterraneans and speak a Latin language with a German accent. South of Avignon is the Med France but Provencal is closer to Italian
