Levantine / Sources

Sources & references

Every historical, legal and technical claim on this site points to one of the references below. Numbers match the small brackets on the Founding page.

Heritage & history

  1. UNESCO — Mediterranean diet, Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (2013)Multinational inscription (Cyprus, Croatia, Spain, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Portugal). The model for a future multinational Levantine file.
  2. Levant — etymology and historical geographyFrom Italian levante, “rising”; the eastern Mediterranean as seen from the sea.
  3. Fertile CrescentOrigin of wheat, barley, lentil, chickpea, flax and the first settled agriculture.
  4. MesopotamiaCuneiform recipe tablets (Yale Babylonian Collection, c. 1750 BC) are the oldest written recipes known.
  5. Levantine cuisine
  6. Levante (Spain)Spain’s own eastern coast — the same word at the western end of the route.
  7. Mediterranean diet
  8. UNESCO — Arabic coffee, a symbol of generosity (2015)
  9. UNESCO — Turkish coffee culture and tradition (2013)Together with [8], the documentary basis for coffee as “Case Zero”.

Legal & certification framework

  1. IRS — Exemption requirements, 501(c)(3) organizations
  2. Delaware Division of Corporations
  3. USPTO — Trademarks (certification marks)A certification mark certifies origin, material, quality or method; its owner may not use it on its own goods.
  4. Orthodox Union KosherReference model: independent, non-profit, symbol-based certification.
  5. IFANCA — Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of AmericaReference model for U.S. halal certification.
  6. ISO/IEC 17065:2012 — Conformity assessment: requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services
  7. FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius

Anatolian axis & the route

  1. UNESCO Creative Cities Network — Hatay, City of Gastronomy (2017)
  2. UNESCO Creative Cities Network — Gaziantep, City of Gastronomy (2015)
  3. Columbian exchangeThe 1521 crossing: wheat, rice, sugar, citrus and chickpea go west; tomato, chile, corn and cacao come east.
  4. Meze · Tapas · Gözleme · Quesadilla · AlbóndigasKinship-table entries (Annex B).
  5. UNESCO — Flatbread making and sharing culture: Lavash, Katyrma, Jupka, Yufka (2016)Multinational inscription (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye) — precedent for shared-table listings.

Product & market

  1. Yuka — independent food scoring appBasis for the “about half the range scores Green” statement.
  2. ALevantine.com — Levantine Kitchenette (A Level Alliances LLC)Product lines, channels and brand concept used on this site.
  3. Value Masters Group / Value Masters AcademyPreparer of the bylaws draft, the manifesto and the Declaration on behalf of the Founding Council.
  4. Levantine CouncilOfficial site of the Council; sealed texts and registry.
Flags on the home page are simplified renderings for recognition only and are not official state symbols. The route map is schematic: coastlines are approximate and the map is not to scale.