I love Mediterranean cuisine, especially pita bread with hummus.
I like Mediterranean cousine as well. I enjoy gyros.
Yes I like gyros as well. It's funny to me how Mediterranean cuisine idea came from Elizabeth David's book  "A Book of Mediterranean Food" in 1950.
I never read that book but have heard of the Mediterranean Diet. I think it is mostly used for losing weight.
That's interesting. I think Mediterranean Diet is inspired mainly by Greece, Southern Italian and Spanish food.
Yeah it sounds super healthy. I know people that have tried it and said it helped them lose weight.
Yes this diet contains a lot of olive oil, legumes, unrefined cereals and fruits and vegetables. It's all healthy, especially with moderate consumption of fish.
They say fish is really good for you, with Omega 3 vitamins. I'm not that into it though.
Mediterranean diet
The Mediterranean diet is a diet inspired by the eating habits of Greece and Italy. The principal aspects of this diet include proportionally high consumption of olive oil, legumes, unrefined cereals, fruits, and vegetables, moderate to high consumption of fish, moderate consumption of dairy products (mostly as cheese and yogurt), moderate wine consumption, and low consumption of non-fish meat products.
There is some evidence that the Mediterranean diet lowers the risk of heart disease and early death, although a 2019 review
Mediterranean cuisine
Mediterranean cuisine is the foods and methods of preparation by people of the Mediterranean Basin region. The idea of a Mediterranean cuisine originates with the cookery writer Elizabeth David's book, "A Book of Mediterranean Food" (1950), though she wrote mainly about French cuisine. She and other writers including the Tunisian historian Mohamed Yassine Essid define the three core elements of the cuisine as the olive, wheat, and the grape, yielding olive oil, bread and pasta, and wine; other writers emphasize the diversity