Apr 08 2009
Be Fresh
Eating fresh produce is part and parcel of the Mediterranean Diet. The only foods that my neighbours used to buy were those they could not produce themselves:
The rest they did without or grew themselves. They had a pig in the cellar, a mule for transport, chickens for meat and eggs, rabbits for meat and they went trapping, shooting and gleaning to survive.
They had olive oil, either because they owned trees or went gleaning after the harvest to ensure their years supply of oil.
They grew food crops in their land or the land they worked, so their diet was freshly picked and/or killed or a product of their preservation of a glut of produce.
