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. 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.