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Greek for beginners: Dakos salad

5. July 2006

Greek salads do not come any easier or simpler than this one. And to be honest this is a Cretan salad, and you do know that the people of Crete are among the healthiest on the planet. Their secret is lots and lots of extra virgin olive oil. This is my version of dakos and [...]

A watermelon sun

5. July 2006

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"Watermelon — it’s a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face." Enrico Caruso The gypsies would drive from neighbourhood to neighbourhood in their open trucks and sell watermelons, just a few years ago in Athens. I think they still do it in rural areas. And in the early afternoon, you’d hear their [...]

Just eat it, don’t make me repeat it

5. July 2006

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I can live on salads, fruit and juices for the whole duration of summer. In Greece, that’s about 5 months. Sometimes, I consider myself lucky that as a vegetarian, I live in a Mediterranean country where there are lots of vegetables and fruit, but when I am in a bad mood, I just miss the [...]