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FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2024 6:20 pm
by IanF
Watching your shorts (
) today and finding the whole “Mediterranean Diet” very interesting. (Although I think you should start calling it Mediterranean Lifestyle to be more accurate about the benefits).
When I lived in Mallorca; your bread, garlic, tomatoes meal was called “pa amb oli”, (which is Mallorquin for bread and olive oil, and easy to ask for as you just say the whole thing as one word) It was a very common and major staple over there, especially on the heavily discounted “del dia” menu that most restaurants offered to workers (€5-7 including a drink in most restaurants). People typically added cured sheep’s cheese (manchego ) and/or cured ham (jamon iberico).
Your video has made me miss it terribly and so I’m planning on visiting there asap, (even with the anti-tourism protests currently).. keep up the good work and I hope you’re enjoying yourself!
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2024 7:09 pm
by mik
IanF wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 6:20 pm
People typically added cured sheep’s cheese (manchego )
I feckin’ love Manchego, but I can’t eat it late as it (repeatably) causes me to have trippy nightmares.
That’s all I have to add to this Fred.
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2024 11:09 pm
by JonMad
IanF wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 6:20 pm
Watching your shorts (
) today and finding the whole “Mediterranean Diet” very interesting. (Although I think you should start calling it Mediterranean Lifestyle to be more accurate about the benefits).
When I lived in Mallorca; your bread, garlic, tomatoes meal was called “pa amb oli”, (which is Mallorquin for bread and olive oil, and easy to ask for as you just say the whole thing as one word) It was a very common and major staple over there, especially on the heavily discounted “del dia” menu that most restaurants offered to workers (€5-7 including a drink in most restaurants). People typically added cured sheep’s cheese (manchego ) and/or cured ham (jamon iberico).
Your video has made me miss it terribly and so I’m planning on visiting there asap, (even with the anti-tourism protests currently).. keep up the good work and I hope you’re enjoying yourself!
Yep, loved having that when visiting my parents when they lived in Catalunya. ¡Tan delicioso! (or, Molt deliciós!, in Catalan)
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 7:44 am
by V8Granite
Isn’t the Mediterranean diet not also great in that it’s more local
Produce and not fucked about with ?
Or is that no longer the case ?
Dave!
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 11:04 am
by Gavster
IanF wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 6:20 pm
When I lived in Mallorca; your bread, garlic, tomatoes meal was called “pa amb oli”, (which is Mallorquin for bread and olive oil, and easy to ask for as you just say the whole thing as one word) It was a very common and major staple over there, especially on the heavily discounted “del dia” menu that most restaurants offered to workers (€5-7 including a drink in most restaurants). People typically added cured sheep’s cheese (manchego ) and/or cured ham (jamon iberico).
Great to hear you're enjoying them! And yes, it's such a simple but amazing dish, I couldn't believe how good it tasted! Absolutely needs be the best sun-drenched ingredients to make it work.
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 11:10 am
by Gavster
V8Granite wrote: Wed Jun 12, 2024 7:44 am
Isn’t the Mediterranean diet not also great in that it’s more local
Produce and not fucked about with ?
Or is that no longer the case ?
Dave!
That's right, the original Mediterranean diet is inherently a local diet too, based on the food easily available within the area that people lived. That's why there's no strictly no such thing as "the Medteranean diet", it should be "the Mediterranean diets" because what someone would eat in Sicily is different to what someone would eat in Western Turkey, yet they're all Mediterranean diets. It should be based on the food local to your specific region. It's also based upon what people were eating in the 1960s and it's a different diet to the modern Italian diet and definitely based on unprocessed foods.
It's also high carb, largely vegetarian and fairly low protein*, and still proven to be very healthy in terms of brain health, heart health and reducing cancer risks.
* not malnourishment low, just low compared to the West's current obsession with protein.
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 11:10 am
by Gavster
PS thanks for that question, I think the next hook for one of my videos might be "There's no such thing as the Mediterranean diet"
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 11:21 am
by 240PP
Following on insta. I’ll try the bread, garlic, oil and tomatoes thing at the weekend!
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 11:29 am
by Mito Man
Bruschetta.
Where people generally go wrong is having that as a starter, then a massive pizza, and then a massive tiramisu, with a pitcher of wine and a few peronis to wash it all down.
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 11:35 am
by dinny_g
Our local independent Italian has amazing Bruschetta - I could easily eat a larger portion as my main
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 1:08 pm
by Swervin_Mervin
I love the simplicity of much of the Mediterranean diet - allowing the fantastic ingredients to shine.
Pan con tomate as done in Andalusia has long been one of my favourite simple dishes.
I had a top drawer 1 bite snack the other day. Wife had left half a tomato. So I salted it and left it 5mins while I made a sarnie. Then sprinkled some dried oregano on and a small drizzle of EVO (Greek natch) and it was sublime.
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 1:38 pm
by V8Granite
I put on 2 stone in 5 weeks in Trieste in Italy, tons of carbs every day, red wine and when we felt tired of that we had Jacobmuschule (spelling very bad) over the border in Slovenia.
I think it was one of the nicest jobs I’ve been on, run by an Italian, all on different parts of the ship and we had 2 Polish guys so it was good good and grappa
Dave!
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2024 12:24 pm
by Gavster
I'm piling on weight and it's bloody great
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2024 2:56 pm
by 240PP
The run looked good. I always pack my trainers if I’m away somewhere.
Watch out for traffic. I nearly got splatted multiple times by mental Italian drivers in the hills above Sorrento.
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 11:54 am
by jamcg
Thread resurrection to post
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articl ... rage-hacks
Fancy cracking out the “that’s good cheese!” Series again gavin?
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 12:40 pm
by Gavster
Thanks for that, I never heard of the sugar cube trick before.
Re: FTAO of Gavster
Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 1:20 pm
by dinny_g
dinny_g wrote: Wed Jun 12, 2024 11:35 am
Our local independent Italian has amazing Bruschetta - I could easily eat a larger portion as my main
I went to a local independent this morning and bought a load of fancy pants heritage tomatoes and made my own for lunch. It’s fucking lush if I do say so myself.
I’m on my 3rd portion…
