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Before It Was a Diet: The Olive’s Long Way to Peru
Oscar Trelles’s narrative nonfiction investigation follows the olive tree from Andalucía to Lima, then traces how the Mediterranean diet became a global health model.
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The project uses one tree to connect empire, irrigation, labor, trade, taste, urbanization, and health research across five centuries. Its central question is both plain and expansive: Peru got the olive—why did it not get the Mediterranean?
Oscar Trelles’s narrative nonfiction investigation follows the olive tree from Andalucía to Lima, then traces how the Mediterranean diet became a global health model.
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