MEDITERRANEAN STORIES

Images of the Mediterranean made with oil, bread and wine. A single meal, encompassing the history, geography, economy, climate, civilization and peoples of the Mediterranean. For centuries, the olive, the vine and the wheat have been sunning themselves in this vast, Internal Sea. Nearby, threshing floors, oilpresses, windmills and wine-presses, traces of a centuries old architecture. Dietary habits, methods of production and daily routines combine with the natural and structured environment to form the cultural body of what is the most interesting of all potential birthplaces of the human race. This is a civilization that, as a common thread, runs through seemingly dissimilar worlds, such as Greece, Turkey and Italy, where the Greek Orthodox world, the Islamic East and the Catholic West supposedly consolidate a history of differences. The Mediterranean becomes a sea of convergence and encounter, which, however, does not overlook the dynamics of dissimilarity, allowing space to both the innovative and the traditional and, above all, insisting on holding a feast after the grapes have been picked off the vine, after the wheat has been harvested, after the olives have been gathered.