On November 16, 2010 The Mediterranean Diet was officially recognized as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO. When we use the term diet today, we speak of ways to lose weight, […]
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The Triad of the Mediterranean Diet, though having ancient roots, has been restyled and redefined by Christianity and is still quite present today. When southern Europe and the Mediterranean basin […]
The Mediterranean Diet has its roots in the distant past: In the Mediterranean basin, in the Greek and Latin worlds, and even in religion; food was once considered a sacred […]
Registering a cultural element in the Representative List of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity involves a lengthy and rather arduous process. Particularly in the initial phases, a great deal […]
The Mediterranean Diet, which was discovered in the twentieth century but is in fact an ancient practice among Mediterranean populations, had three important early literary allies that introduced the Diet […]
The beginning of the Mediterranean Diet’s “discovery” can be traced to Ancel Keys’ 1951 arrival in Rome, Italy. He had been sent by the FAO (the UN Food and Agriculture […]
Strangely enough, the Mediterranean Diet was discovered by an American named Ancel Keys, who in 1951 became particularly interested in healthy way of eating that he’d discovered in Italy. Keys […]
The Convention for the Safeguarding of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage provided the following definition of an emblematic community: “Communities, groups, and, where appropriate, individuals that create, maintain and transmit cultural […]
How is intangible cultural heritage protected? It is easy to imagine how to protect the material heritage: a monument, a physical place, if it is in ruins, must be restored, […]
This video lesson will address the question of dual UNESCO heritage, that is, a physical site and an intangible element. These two forms of UNESCO recognition resulted from the Convention […]