The Programme in Mediterranean Foodways within the Mediterranean Institute has invited Prof. Barbara Santich from the University of Adelaide to deliver the seminar entitled: 'The Original Mediterranean Cuisine' on 24 May at 18:00 in the Mediterranean Institute, Ir-Razzett tal-Hursun, University of Malta.
Abstract
In the medieval era, before the discovery of the Americas, the shared history and culture of western Mediterranean Europe found expression in a shared cuisine based essentially on ingredients native to the region and influenced by the culture of the Arab world to the south. This talk discusses the unity of Mediterranean Europe and the evolution of a cuisine that was distinctly different to that of northern Europe. Remnants of this cuisine - the original Mediterranean cuisine - persist to the present day.
Bio
Professor Emeritus Barbara Santich is an internationally renowned food historian who in 2001 inaugurated the Graduate Program in Gastronomy at the University of Adelaide. She is the author of five books on Australian and Mediterranean food cultures, including The Original Mediterranean Cuisine (first published 1995, revised second edition 2018) . Currently she is researching the food and cooking of eighteenth-century Provence.
To attend please send an email to Isabelle Abela on isabelle.abela@um.edu.mt
To attend please send an email to Isabelle Abela on isabelle.abela@um.edu.mt