Last months Greece is threatened not only by its biggest post-war economic crisis but also by the most significant political upheaval since the end of dictatorship (1974). It is not surprising then that the crisis has a big impact on the…
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LAVENDER CAKE
He is an old man, almost ninety, tall, with piercing brown eyes. She is a nice looking lady, a few years younger than him. She has amazingly lovely smile. Around dusk almost every evening I see them…
Cured lean pork – a Byzantine tradition.
In his lettter to Alexios Pantechnes, Ioannis Tzetzes, a 12th century Byzantine scholar, thanks him for his gifts which were spices and a living partridge, adding that he preferred slaughtered animals to alive ones, because he could not suffer seeing blood…