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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mediterranean cuisine is the food of the areas around the Mediterranean Sea. Whether this is a useful category is disputed: Mediterranian Cuisine in Dalmatia, Croatia. The idea of the 'standard Mediterranean' ... is a modern construction of food writers and publicists in Western Europe and North America earnestly preaching what is now thought to be a healthy diet to their audiences by invoking a stereotype of the healthy other on the shores of the Mediterranean. Their colleagues in Mediterranean countries are only too willing to perpetuate this myth. The fact of the matter is that the Mediterranean contains varied cultures... Around 1975, under the impulse of one of those new nutritional directives by which good cooking is too often influenced, the Americans discovered the so-called Mediterranean diet.... The name... even pleased Italian government officials, who made one modification: changing from diet-a word which has always seemed punitive and therefore unpleasant-to Mediterranean cuisine.

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