Here are two video clips from Andrew Zimmern’s Bizzare Foods on Greece. All around the Mediterranean sea urchin is an esteemed delicacy, not a bizzare food. Fermenting and preserving dairy products in goat’s skin is an ancient practice. Zimmern’s…
YOU DON’T OWN YOUR MATCHES, YOU DON’T OWN YOUR SALT, YOU DON’T OWN YOUR SUGAR, YOU DON’T OWN YOUR OLIVE OIL
Fire has a major role in the process of human evolution, development of language, socialization, technologies. Civilization would not be possible without fire. And matches made much easier its lighting. Salt shaped civilization from the very beginning. It is…
FOOD FESTIVALS
In the recent years there is an annual festival for almost every food, be it chestnuts, strawberries, cherries, pies, anchovies, snails etc. Villages and towns promote the food festivals as a celebration of their local products and culinary tradition, both worth…
ADMIRAL’S MIAOULIS SEA BASS …
In brief: “Greece became independent in the early 1830s, after a prolonged war of liberation/secession from the Ottoman empire. Like the contemporaneous revolts of the Carbonari in Italy and France (1820, 1821) and the victorious uprising of the anti-monarchist Spaniards…