Carmela Cotrone

One of my strongest memories connected to the Mediterranean Diet is not a single dish, but the experience of rural and coastal territories that I visited during these years of project, where food, landscape and community life are deeply connected: olive groves, small farms, local markets, family-run restaurants, fishermen’s villages and inland a…[Read more]

Two Mediterranean territories that, in my view, strongly embody this living heritage are Crete and Cilento.

In Crete, the Mediterranean Diet is not only a nutritional model, but a social practice rooted in hospitality, sharing, seasonality and the strong relationship between rural communities, local products and everyday conviviality. The table…[Read more]

For me, the most important benefit of the MD is long-term healthy aging, because the MD healthy food brings together many dimensions: cardiovascular protection, metabolic balance, daily energy, and quality of life over time.

The biggest challenge is not really using more olive oil or choosing healthy fats; it is reducing ultra-processed foods…[Read more]