Talk:A Book of Mediterranean Food/Archive 1

It's a sea not a country

Just because one country technically borders this particular sea doesnt mean nothing. Who the HELL EVER MISTAKES Italian food with Egyptian food?? Or Lebanese or Turkish? Stop trying to forcefully fit a narrative. Italian food AS A WHOLE is NOT mediterannean food. I shouldn't have to explain this. Me trying to explain this would be like Bruce Lee trying to explain to people that he's not black. if you Google baba ganouj or Falafel by default, magically it will be considered Mediterranean dishes! if you Google Italian Subs from a sandwich shop nobody's going to call them "Mediterranean food" it's just regular food, because that's a classic western popular go-to. Eating foods from Jordan, Yemen or Syria is considered Mediterranean & that label is MUCH MORE EXOTIC. You can't lump things. Ask any Italian if they grew up on or ever heard of these exotic dishes from the middle east & you'll just hear...crickets. I have an Italian grandfather & he never made anything close to these dishes that they're talking about. He made mostly foods that everyone knows about Internationally, Italian General stuff mostly. And if it was some rare Italian Dish definitely the Egyptians never heard of it, nor the Persians. And How come nobody calls Israeli, Saudi or Egyptian food "Red Sea food"? I mean technically Israel touches the Red Sea. It would be like me traveling to Korea, China, india & Japan & instead of calling it "Asian Foods" I'll call it "South Pacific foods" & completely ignore Asia! I'll just relate Chinese food as being closely closely related to the foods from Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Hawaii Easter Island hell even the islands of Mexico because evidently Mexico has some islands in the Pacific. To lump Italian food with Egyptian food as "the same" would be like lumping Chinese food & Australian food as "the same". "Well they both border the Pacific Ocean so..." Yeah I would look like a complete idiot if I wrote a book like that so why isn't she? Besides didn't Britain have colonies or provinces? Did she forget that Gibraltar is apart of the UK? Also the Suez canal, Corfu, Malta, Menorca & Cyprus were at one point British colonies so the British have been in the Mediterranean Seas for centuries long before this female cook existed so that's nothing new to them anyways. Here is another tidbit: since the United States & Venezuela BOTH touch the Caribbean Sea let's let's lump both countries as "being part of the same culturally kindred stock" like they're "familiar with each other's Foods & mannerisms". American guy & the Venezuelan guy walk into a bar & I yell out "you guys are brothers man because you're both from the same Caribbean Blood lines" 76.167.193.57 (talk) 21:02, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the thoughts. If editors were forcing ideas together, then of course it'd be wrong. But in fact the article is based on what authors and scholars have written: the article is fully cited to those sources. You may disagree with those authors, but they have their opinions and we report on what they wrote. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:27, 9 August 2022 (UTC)