On the 16th of November 2010 in Nairobi in Kenya, the Intergovernmental Committee of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention approves the Mediterranean Diet's inscription on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. But what's behind it? We will discover that the Mediterranean diet is not just a simple list of elements or nutrition facts. Behind it, there is history, tradition and cult

The Mediterranean Diet's UNESCO recognition, in the beginning, was only for Italy, Spain, Greece and Morocco, then in 2013, it was extended to Cyprus, Croatia and Portugal. But precisely, what are we talking about? And why has it been acknowledged by UNESCO?