Vinegared blood. (Xidato aima. Chania of Crete) fresh blood from the pig’s neck 200 gr meat from the pig’s neck, 1 cm diced 1 onion finely chopped 3 tbs olive oil 3/4 cup vinegar ground salt ground black pepper Strain…
Blood in food
‘Do not taste dead flesh, nor touch blood’ S.Clementis I Rom.Opera dubia, PG, II, v. 220,175-6 ΙV. Over the last 40 years, the Western European Christmas culture spread more and more in Greece. One result of this spread is the…
Quince
The name of the first common Greek quince variety is kydonion melon, which means the apple from Kydonia. Kydonia was the principal Minoan city in the west of Crete and quince may have been indigenous to it. The kydonion melon is mentioned in…