Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed me that modern borders are absurd | Federico De Blasi

Migration and cultural exchange have always been the norm between coastal European and African nations. We should celebrate this shared history We are used to mapping the world by continents, dividing the globe into rigid geopolitical blocks. But to understand the complex reality behind each border, we are better off using a different, edible kind of cartography. For most of human existence, the Mediterranean has existed as an intercultural entity in its own right, where peoples and languages from different lands blur the lines that constitute modern frontiers. And nowhere is this shared regio

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