Agriculture and Gardens

One of the unintentional end products of the clearing of the Lombardy plains for the establishment of rice fields in the fifteenth century was risotto...

It was the nascent class of wealthy capitalists that profoundly changed the land of the Mediterranean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries...

Rivers of water unstalling, rivers of milk unchanging in flavor, and rivers of wine--a delight to the drinkers, rivers, too of honey purified, and therein for them is every fruit and forgiveness from their Lord...

The contrast between today's image of the Mediterranean and the actual Mediterranean that existed for centuries could not be drawn more starkly...

Throughout the coastal Mediterranean, from Murcia in Spain to Provence, fish were fried in olive oil in the sixteenth century...