Mid-Afternoon Map: Mediterranean Food Map

Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. *** When we inaugurated this newsletter, we promised it would feature “good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones.” Whether all the maps so far have been great is up for debate, but I don’t think we’ve had any truly terrible ones yet. So, with that, let me share a couple of my own. The concept of Mediterranean cuisine has always been a confusing, if compelling, one. Over the past century and a