The theme of this year's IV Week of Italian Cuisine in the World is the Mediterranean diet and food education. Tonight (Thursday 21 November) at Sydney's Italian Cultural Institute, Professor Luigi Fontana will address these issues in a conference entitled "The Mediterranean diet: where taste goes hand in hand with health".
But when and how was the "Mediterranean diet" discovered? The anecdote is a curious one and links an American scholar to a Neapolitan scholar. Fontana, a professor of medicine and nutrition at the University of Sydney and director of the Research Center on Longevity and Health at the Charles Perkins Center, tells us the story.
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