MOSAIC - The training kit for Euro-Mediterranean youth work

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2 History and memory
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Every point of view is a view taken from a particular point in social space.
Pierre Bourdieu 1
2.1 Introduction: origins of the Mediterranean meal
Close your eyes and imagine what is called a Mediterranean meal: what would you
include in it? Let’s try: cheese, tomatoes, sliced green peppers, olives of different kinds,
maybe with olive oil and different spices – perhaps you would like to pour this over
your bread. What about some marmalade? Would you like some lemon with your
tea? Some stuffed aubergine in your lunch or dinner? Perhaps some baby corn or
boiled corn seeds in your green salad? A glass of wine or grape juice to accompany
your meal? A cup of Turkish coffee or mint tea after the meal? Maybe smoking some
hooka, argilah or shisha (‘waterpipe’ in English) would complete the taste circle of
Mediterranean pleasures. And then a nap or siesta in the shade of some eucalyptus trees.
If one asked the first important historian of the Mediterranean (and maybe Europe)
that we know of, Herodotus, his reply would be substantially different from the above,
because he would simply not know many of these items. Tomatoes, peppers, aubergine
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