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The Mediterranean diet is not only olive oil and vegetables; UNESCO treats it as a culture of growing, cooking and eating together.

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It includes crops, fishing, preserving, preparing food, markets, seasonal knowledge and shared meals. The deeper lesson is easy to miss: a diet can be a social rhythm, a way of passing care and memory across a table.

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Akdeniz diyeti yalnızca zeytinyağı, sebze ve balıktan oluşan bir beslenme listesi değildir; UNESCO’ya göre bir yaşam ve sofra kültürüdür.

Bu kültür tarımı, balıkçılığı, pazarı, mevsim bilgisini, saklama yöntemlerini, yemek hazırlamayı ve birlikte sofraya oturmayı kapsar. Değeri yalnızca sağlıklı içeriklerde değil, yemeği aile, komşuluk ve paylaşım ritmine bağlamasındadır.

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UNESCO describes the Mediterranean diet as skills, knowledge, rituals, symbols and traditions concerning crops, harvesting, fishing, animal husbandry, conservation, processing, cooking and sharing food; eating together is central. Source: https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/mediterranean-diet-00884

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