date:Mar 25, 2013
cessed grains, Anderson said.
Pan-Mediterranean cuisine includes foods from regions ranging from the south of Italy, France, Greece, Spain, Turkey and Morocco to the Eastern and Middle Eastern Mediterranean.
The Mediterranean diet is extremely healthy being lower in processed foods and animal fats and is often based on local produce, wheat products, such as bread, pastry and pasta, fresh fruit and vegetables, fish and olive oil, said Jim Rakhshani, general manager of Cafe Renaissance in Wait