Every Saturday, attracts a fleet of cars and trucks in a windswept car park right on the Mediterranean. Under white awnings, women flutter slot open Eggplant the size of a large man thumb and so it is with a mixture of chopped garlic, paprika, and walnuts. This is the Souk el Tayeb, the weekly market, which has helped, trotting make a hot destination for globe gourmet Beirut. But if you see, such as the new generation of Lebanese will really want to eat, you have to go somewhere else. You have to go to the Roadster diner.
Roadster restaurants is a chain of the 1950s years Americana. The original motto, "There goes my Heart" Elvis and his artery clogging food causes. The Roadster in my neighborhood of Beirut had with a life-size statue of a grinning black man huge white teeth singing into a microphone. In contrast to the vigorously authentic Lebanese restaurant beloved of tourists and visitors food be writer always wrapped Roadster of the nine retail franchises in Lebanon with local.
In Europe and the United States, the so-called Mediterranean diet - rich in olive oil, grains, fish, fruit and vegetables and wine - is a global multi-billion-dollar mark, allesumfassende of hummus, package travel to Italy, where "wine tourism" roughly five billion euros annually rake. Studies at Harvard and elsewhere correlate the Mediterranean diet with lower rates of heart disease, diabetes and depression. In America, gurus such as Mehmet Oz health exhort followers to "eat like a Greek." But according to data from the United Nations food and Agriculture Organization, Mediterranean people have some of the worst diets in Europe, and the Greeks are the fattest: 75 percent of the population is overweight. So what is the Mediterranean diet people in the Mediterranean eat, then what is it?
Before there was a Mediterranean diet, was it WWII and the scarcity of food, which went along with it. As the fighting past was Haqvin Mamrol, a researcher in Sweden, showed that mortality from coronary disease fell during the war in Northern European countries. This was, he believed, the result of the war-time restrictions for milk, butter, eggs and meat. Scientist named Ancel keys, which studied the effects of hunger on a group of volunteer subjects to study business people on the diet of Midwest moved at about the same time, a Minnesota. He found that these more vulnerable were well-fed Americans for heart disease than men in Northern Europe war robbed were. Key posits that saturated fats to high levels of cholesterol and from there to cardiovascular disease led. To prove it, he initiated a long-term study in seven countries, including Italy and Greece. He concluded that we should reduce drastically saturated fatty acids and instead turn on vegetable oils. Key and his wife wrote two best sellers, changed the way Americans ate.
Always a composite was the Mediterranean diet. Spaniards love pork; Egyptians, not in the rule. In some regions people pesto made oil not olives with lard. "There is no such thing the Mediterranean diet; called" There are Mediterranean diet, "says Professor at the American University of Beirut Rami Zurayk, a farming." "Share some similarities – there are a lot of fruit and vegetables, there are a lot of fresh produce in them, are eaten in small dishes, there are less meat in them." "These are the common characteristics, but there are many different Mediterranean diet."
The healthy versions of these diets have another thing in common: they are, what the Italians called "Cucina Povera," the "food of the poor". In Ancel keys's day A? Maroon lentils instead of meat, because she had no other choice. "A lot with poverty, not geography, to do," says Sami Zubaida, leading scholars on food and culture.
Diet is mainly about the request. The diet was with this key and his colleagues invented little resemblance which actually wanted to eat kastanienfarben. "I am not sure whether the Prestige would be high enough for the people in the Mediterranean Sea to follow such a diet," says Josef Schmidhuber, a senior economist at the United Nations for food and Agriculture Organization. "Because to a Western diet, are available with prestige and wealth."
Added last year UNESCO Mediterranean diet in the list of the world's great intangible cultural treasures of the backup. Today, more than half of the population of Italy, Portugal and Spain are overweight. In the Eastern Mediterranean countries, particularly among young people, a growing number of which like their Eggplant French fries and milkshakes in the Roadster act as Lebanon, obesity grows.
Annia Ciezadlo is the author of day of honey: A Memoir of food, love and war.
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