Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate. Spain & Mediterranean Food There can be no excuses for not cooking with fresh food when living in the Mediterranean. Spanish food is a showcase for the Mediterranean diet around the world. Healthy food, full of flavour and based on olive oil, vegetables, and seasonal ingredients.  Spain has been awarded the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage designation. There are a host of health benefits to cooking with fresh produce, including weight loss, heart and brain health, cancer prevention, diabetes prevention and general physical and mental wellness. It’s more of an eating pattern than a calorie-restricted diet, the Mediterranean diet emphasizes lots of vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, seeds, and fish, with liberal use of olive oil, meats & fresh fish. Throw in strong Spanish coffee & cake, great wine, and it’s a way of eating which is common in Mediterranean countries such as Spain, Italy, and Greece. We look at it as a Mediterranean lifestyle. It’s not so much what we eat, it’s about how we eat & who we eat with