i love to eat pita bread with hummus.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Mediterranean cuisine is the foods and methods of preparation by people of the Mediterranean Basin region, especially those of Southern Europe. The idea of a Mediterranean cuisine originates with the cookery writer Elizabeth David's book, \"A Book of Mediterranean Food\" (1950). She and other writers including the Tunisian historian Mohamed Yassine Essid define the three core elements of the cuisine as the olive, wheat, and the grape, yielding olive oil, bread and pasta, and wine; other writers emphasize the diversity of the region's foods and deny that it is a useful concept. The geographical area covered broadly follows the distribution of the olive tree, as noted by David and Essid. The region spans a wide variety of cultures with distinct cuisines, in particular (going anticlockwise around the region) the Maghrebi, Egyptian, Levantine, Ottoman (Turkish), Greek, Italian, Proven\u00e7al (French), and Spanish. However, the historical connections of the region, as well as the impact of the Mediterranean Sea on the region's climate and economy, mean that these cuisines share dishes beyond the core trio of oil, bread, and wine, such as roast lamb or mutton, meat stews with vegetables and tomato (for example, Spanish andrajos and Italian ciambotta), and the salted cured fish roe, bottarga, found across the region.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I love Mediterranean cuisine, which is obviously food prepared often by people of the Mediterranean Basin region."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Its delicious though i dont know exactly what classifies but i love things like Italian"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well the idea of Mediterranean cuisine originates from the writer Elizabeth David."}, {"role": "user", "content": "wow thats strange, though id love to visit the area sometime"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I would too! The book is called \"A Book of Mediterranean Food\"."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Huh seems like a strange place for the term to originate"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Agreed! She and other writers like Mohamed Tassine Essid are what defined the three core elements of Mediterranean cuisine."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Didnt think 2 people could dictate what is and isnt cuisine of a certain area"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well the region seems to span a wide variety of cultures so it isn't just what they defined as the culture's food."}, {"role": "user", "content": "well thanks for the info, didnt think it had such a brief and new history"}]