History of Greek Food

 
Behind this fish -soup there is a long history of fear and courage.
Because, in the ancient thought the sea was a hostile, lonely world with sea monsters and fishes which were  frightening to humans….  the only animal eaten in eastern Mediterranean that could eat people. Dolphins were an exception of course.

Scylla. Apulian vase. 4th cent. BC
Such negative feeling had [...]

Theodoros Papagiannis : Tribute to the bread. Installation (clay & metal). 1998 

…. 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 bite bergamot and then you drink drink drink cool water, coffees,
and a never- ending cigarette  like Greece.**
Naming bergamot, cool [...]

 
….walnuts and thyme honey.
 

(Photo credit: Mariana Kavroulaki)

View of Haitian landsape: Michelle Walz Errikson (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Haitian_Landscape_hispaniola.jpg)
On the first day of 1804 and after 14 years of violent conflicts between the African slaves and French colonists,  Haiti made history by being the first independent African nation in the world.
16 years later, the declaration of the Greek Revolution against the ruling Ottoman Empire  recieved a warm response in Haiti. Not only was [...]

Here is the easiest way to make a lemon flavored liqueur.
1 cup  lemon juice
zest of one lemon making sure not to get the pith
1 cup  sugar
1 cup or more cretan tsikoudia or pure alcohol or 100-proof vodka
Add the  sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest to a jar and stir well until the sugar dissolves. 
Leave the mixture for 12 hours.
Strain [...]

A Christmas meal
 

A  dinner after Christmas
 

A New Year’s Eve dinner
 
Holiday season is finally over…
No more tables filled with mountain of delicacies.
Though  they hid us for a few days from world’s despair and Greece’s economic depression.
Holiday season is over…  And we cannot longer pretend that poverty, desperation and hopelessness don’t surround us.