Word: mediterranean
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...marriage to the sea. For a long time, the union was a splendid and prosperous one. Thanks to its sprawling trade network, Venice became a wealthy imperial power in the 13th century, its institutions later mimicked by the Dutch and English. The city-state's mighty fleets patrolled the Mediterranean, while its merchants haggled at the far reaches of the Silk Road, dispatching the wonders of Asia back to an awed Christendom...
...resort near Thessaloniki. Christoforos Peskias, whose Athens restaurant 48 has one Michelin star, promises to outdo his debut last year, when he deconstructed the Greek salad with tomato sorbet, peppers and feta in jelly, cucumber in foam, onion in thin chips and olive puree. A fine line-up of Mediterranean chefs will complement the Hellenic focus. www.saniresort.gr...
...While these results aren't definitive, researchers in Saudi Arabia and along Europe's Mediterranean coast have found similar patterns, as customary low-fat foods are abandoned. "We blindly accepted that the Western way of life was better," says Dr. Xu Guangwei, head of the Beijing-based China Anti-Cancer Association...
...center of the Croatian boom is Istria, a Mediterranean peninsula that was spared the fighting. The local government anticipates 22 courses by 2012, and the region has attracted interest from major names in design, including Jack Nicklaus and Robert Trent Jones Jr. Largely driven by growth in Istria and buzz around Croatia's imminent accession to the E.U., the World Travel and Tourism Council last year listed Croatia as the world's fastest growing tourist destination, a mantle to which the government responded by swiftly laying out 50 potential golf sites in a nation of 4.5 million...
...slow end to a sizzling summer along the shores of the eastern Mediterranean has brought harvest season to the Bekaa Valley. The fertile basin just over Lebanon's coastal mountain range may be well known as a hotbed of Shi'ite militancy that has at various times hosted some of the world's most notorious terrorists, but it is also home to Lebanon's wine industry. It's a very Lebanese experience to watch Bedouin farm workers in the early morning light that illuminates distant mosques, as they carry crateloads of grapes to be pressed into a liquid that Islamic...