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Haloumi and grape salad

Saturday, August 5, 2006

It is boiling hot in Athens. I cannot bear to be in the kitchen, at least not too far from the fridge where it is cool. So, no cooking. We have to make do with salads and fruit and cheese. Really, I have never asked you: Do you like mixing fruit and vegetables? Or are [...]

A watermelon sun

Wednesday, July 5, 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

Wednesday, July 5, 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 [...]