Claim: Mediterranean cuisine is the food and methods of preparation used by the people of the Mediterranean Basin which the idea of a Mediterranean cuisine originates with the cookery writer, an American cookery writer who has the influence on British cooking extended to professional as well as domestic cooks, and chefs and restaurateurs of later generations including a British-South African restaurateur, chef, and novelist who is known as the Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
Verdict: REFUTE