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Mediterranean - The Cretans

53 images Created 2 Dec 2014

The Mediterranean diet.

The people of Crete, the largest of the Greek islands, eat a rich variety of foods drawn from their groves and farms and the sea. They lived on a so-called Mediterranean diet long before it became a fad.
This is part of a global story shot for National Geographic and titled "The Evolution of Diet", on self-sufficient communities, their lifestyle and food habits.

Story here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au8eyrI9Ta8
And here with text @Matthieu Paley : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2014/11/25/we-are-what-we-eat-spring-in-crete-means-a-feast-of-wild-greens/
And here : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/evolution-of-diet/
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  • Trimming olive trees so it produces more olives in summer and therefore more olive oil, the basis of the Mediterranean diet. Visiting the olive grove of Areti and Fanouris Alexopoulou, a farmer couple in Mires Village.
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  • Picking parsley. Visiting the fields of Adonis Gligoris, a farmer from Pyrgos village.
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  • Sardines, escargot and fava beans. Big lunch on saturday with the Moschonas family. In and around the village of Meronas.
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  • Cooking lunch at Popi and Costas's house. In and around Meronas village, Central Crete.
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  • Trimming olive trees so it produces more olives this summer and therefore  more olive oil, the basis of the Mediterranean diet. In and around Meronas village, Central Crete.
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  • View over Central Crete, home of the Mediterranean Diet. In and around Archane village.
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  • Big lunch on saturday with the Moschonas family. In and around the village of Meronas.
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  • Vangelio Tsimbragou picking wild herbs to cook with. In and around Meronas village, Central Crete.
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  • Vangelio Tsimbragou picking wild herbs to cook with. In and around Meronas village, Central Crete.
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  • Picking wild herbs and gathering them in a vest to cook with. In and around Meronas village, Central Crete.
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  • Trimming a vineyard. Cretan landscape.
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  • A field of olive trees. Cretan landscape.
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  • Trimming olive trees so it produces more olives this summer and therefore  more olive oil, the basis of the Mediterranean diet. In and around Meronas village, Central Crete.
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  • Trimming olive trees so it produces more olives this summer and therefore  more olive oil, the basis of the Mediterranean diet. In and around Meronas village, Central Crete.
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  • Cleaning up the wild herbs gathered in the nearby fields. Diner at the Moschonas family. In and around the village of Meronas.
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  • Breakfast in a café. In and around Archane village.
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  • Church service on Friday evening. In and around the village of Meronas.
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  • Church service on Friday evening. In and around the village of Meronas.
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  • Stop at the local café. In and around the village of Meronas.
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  • Fresh goat cheese with kumquat jam. Breakfast at Popi and Cortas's house. In and around Meronas village, Central Crete.
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  • Breakfast of olives, oranges, pomegranate, nuts, dried tomatoes etc. At the home and field of Manolis Vardakis, in Pyrgos village. village.
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  • Cretan orange grove.
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  • At the vegetable garden of Thomas Venakis, from which he takes all his vegetables. Zouridi village.
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  • Cooking lunch, in the kitchen of Thomas Venakis, who grows his own vegetables, in Zouridi village.
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