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“Eating Well Is The Best Revenge” by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—11/21/11—In the 60s, when I was a resident of the Big Apple, the Fifth Avenue buses used to stream downtown with this seductive ad along their sides: “It may be November in New York, but it’s still summer in Greece.” I’ve been wondering [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—11/7/11—Well, it’s that time of year again, olive-picking time, and although we’ve been on the island for a week, strong, nay furious, freezing winds kept us inside winterizing the house rather than attempting to pull olives off our laden trees. The wind finally [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—10/24/11—Like Woody Allen’s hero, Gil, in Midnight in Paris, I always wanted to have lived in Paris in the 1920s. Unlike Gil, I did live there in another belle époque, the early 60s. And most of the time, I knew even then that [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—10/10/11—We’ve been to fabled Mykonos enough times not to need to revisit, but when my dear friend, “The Fish,” confessed that her husband, Païdaki, “The Lamb Chop,” was allergic to Andros, it was obvious we Mountains would have to go to their Mecca. [...]

“Eating Well Is The Best Revenge” by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—9/12/2011—The Greeks have a saying about their countrymen from the island of Chios in the northeast Aegean. “The Chiots go about in pairs, two by two,” they’ll pronounce with a slightly mocking tone, as if to imply that in this land of ruthless [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece— (Weekly Hubris)—8/29/2011—When people ask what I like best about living in Greece, I along with many other expats and locals often answer—only partly joking—tavernas and the farmers’ markets. But there are signs that our beleaguered government does not share our fondness for these [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—8/15/11—I’d been looking forward to making the olive cookies for weeks. Ever since my friend and fellow food writer Diane Kochilas posted the recipe on Facebook in early June. Using a hard-boiled egg yolk sounded strange, but the combination of black olives and [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—8/1/11—The other night, we were sitting in a taverna when one dish leapt out of the menu: Vlita sauced with tomato and garlic. Vlita, usually transliterated as Blite (or even Blight—though it is anything but), goes under the name Amaranth in English. But [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—7/18/11—If worst comes to worst, I can always become one of those little old ladies who sell herbs on the sidewalk near the farmers’ markets or in downtown Athens. All of the herbs named in my title are flourishing in what passes for [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—7/4/11—“In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love . . . .” By summer, though, things turn serious and wedding plans are made. In Crete, at least, weddings are summer events, and that’s because virtually every knot-tying ceremony [...]