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Today’s Mediterranean diet leans on olive oil, vegies and fish. But the ancients mainly ate bread

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par Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia

The Roman emperor Julian (332–363 CE) called bread the food that “among us is thought to be the most nourishing”.

Bread and other cereal-based foods were indeed central to ancient Mediterranean diets. This was supplemented by pulses, oil, wine and whatever seasonal produce people could obtain.

This is not quite the “Mediterranean…

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