I love Mediterranean cuisine, which is obviously food prepared often by people of the Mediterranean Basin region.
Its delicious though i dont know exactly what classifies but i love things like Italian
Well the idea of Mediterranean cuisine originates from the writer Elizabeth David.
wow thats strange, though id love to visit the area sometime
I would too! The book is called "A Book of Mediterranean Food".
Huh seems like a strange place for the term to originate
of the region's foods and deny that it is a useful concept. The geographical area covered broadly follows the distribution of the olive tree, as noted by David and Essid. 
The region spans a wide variety of cultures with distinct cuisines, in particular (going anticlockwise around the region) the Maghrebi, Egyptian, Levantine, Ottoman (Turkish), Greek, Italian, Provençal (French), and Spanish. However, the historical connections of the region, as well as the impact of the Mediterranean Sea on the
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