01347nas a2200133   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100002100043245013500064300000900199490000600208520098500214022001401199                                       d1 aF. Xavier Medina00aThe Building of Food Cultural Intangible Heritage and its Challenges in the Mediterranean Area: the Case of the Mediterranean Diet  a6-230 v53 aThis article aims to conduct a critical, conceptual and diachronic review on the building of the candidacy of the Mediterranean Diet as intangible cultural heritage and its way to the final declaration, achieved in November 2010. As in the case of any candidacy for UNESCO, the proposal involves negotiations, equipment, conceptual apparatus, bureaucracies, times or economies that, seen as a whole corpus and with a certain distance, can be very illustrative of how it is constructed and negotiated a cultural food heritage and, especially, in relation to a supranational institution like UNESCO. On the other hand, the value of this statement links not only the historical fact itself that an intangible cultural good related to food has been declared as World Heritage by a supranational institution. That statement is also and above all a recognition of the need and the urgency of preserving the techniques, practices, habits, ideas, values and spaces approved food cultures.  a0719-4994