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Home-cooking and family bonds are the secrets to a healthy and long life

The Mediterranean diet is about cooking at home with family and friends. Home-cooking and family bonds are the secrets to a healthy and long life. The Mediterranean diet is more than just food. It is about social interactions and relationships with family and friends. Food is a mean that brings people together.

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A scientific research shows why the Mediterranean Diet is so healthy

Doctors have finally found out that the health benefits effects of the Mediterranean diet may be due not only to the consumption of certain foods, but also to cooking techniques such as sofrito (sauté) made with extra virgin olive oil and tomatoes or garlic. This means that it is healthy to cook with extra virgin olive oil. Here find a recipe with lentils which are naturally rich in proteins and perfect for people who want to follow a Mediterranean Diet or a plant-based diet reducing the quantity of proteins coming from red meat

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ONLINE COURSE: food and extra virgin olive oil pairing

Learn about the different types of extra virgin olive oils and how to pair each olive oil with different food. Class also includes a guided and practical olive oil tasting where you learn to use you nose and palate in order to find out if the olive oil is truly [...]

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ONLINE COURSE: best flours to bake sourdough bread or to make pasta

Learn about the best flours to bake sourdough bread or to make pasta. You learn the difference between durum wheat semolina or white whole purpose flous as well as other flous such as farro, barley orzo or oat. You learn which flour is best to use both in terms of [...]

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Tasty and Healthy Extra virgin olive oil

It's very difficult to find sustainable, tasty and healthy extra virgin olive oil. Not all extra virgin olive oils are the same! Different EVOOs can have very different health benefits due to the different amount of polyphenols (anti-oxidants). Each variety of olive naturally has different amount of polyphenols. Coratina, the [...]

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