Salad. A summer without it would be very dull. Tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers straight from the garden, olives -that came from our olive trees- preserved in bitter orange juice. Onion juice and bitter orange juice marinated fresh tuna. Boiled potatoes. Sea…
HEARTS AND BEANS
” Their heart is like an artichoke” Greeks say, describing those who are in love with love and keep a leaf for everyone in sight, like an “I love you…. and you…. and you”. Here, the phrase retains the meaning of the original French expression “avoir un coeur d´artichaut”: to easily fall…
LAMB’S HEAD
Greek Easter means lamb but the least physically attractive part of the animal, the head, is what is treated as unparalleled delicacy. The tradition of serving lamb head at feasts and special occasions is still a popular custom, particularly among islanders, though it often inspires disgust to several of the foreign…
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…
I really eat bergamot for day to dawn…
…. and I write poems so as to fall in love rightly, Odysseas Elytis says.* To fall in love you have to write poems of course, and the bergamot’s flavor explosions do pull the night away! In another poem, he writes: You…