Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15378/1848-9540.2023.46.01
Mediterranean Diet 3.0 – From Traditional Food to Sustainable Policies
Jelena Ivanišević
orcid.org/0000-0002-2252-5938
; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb
Ana Tominc
orcid.org/0000-0001-7894-1685
; Queen Margaret University Edinburgh
Elisabetta Moro
orcid.org/0000-0002-7954-2405
; “Suor Orsola Benincasa” University of Naples
Ken Albala
; University of the Pacific
F.Xavier Medina
orcid.org/0000-0002-8067-355X
; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Darko Babić
; Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Sub-Department of Museology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Abstract
This paper will try to sketch the conceptual transformations of the Mediterranean diet from the second half of the 20th century to the present. This undoubtedly popular food model, which combines various food cultures of the Mediterranean, was initially recognized due to
its health benefits, contributing to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. The initial impulse for the global popularity of the Mediterranean food culture, which came from medical and nutrition sciences, has helped simplify, in the long run, the complex food systems of the Mediterranean, which have been recognized as a homogeneous culinary and cultural pattern since the 2000s. After the Mediterranean diet was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010, the understanding of this
food culture changed. Today, the Mediterranean diet is being examined within the context of sustainable development policies and the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems with the aim of developing new long-term political and economic models within the necessary
transformations of present food systems towards greener and more sustainable solutions.
Keywords
traditional cooking; Mediterranean; Mediterranean diet; intangible heritage; sustainable food policy; sustainable diet
Hrčak ID:
311796
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Publication date:
20.12.2023.
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