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  • Prospero’s Kitchen Revisited

    Diana Farr Louis / 2 Comments

    “It all began on a tennis court in the late 1980s. I was co-editing a magazine for a Greek hotel chain and, since we were writing most of the articles ourselves under pseudonyms,…

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  • Paean to An Athenian Hospital

    Diana Farr Louis

    “My weeklong stay at the Syngrou Hospital was like a holiday. If it had had a pool, it would have been perfect. I was stress-free, looking after only myself, leading a life of…

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  • Homage To a Philhellenic Anniversary

    Diana Farr Louis

    “Looking back over all that has happened since the 4th of June, 1972, it seems I was extraordinarily fortunate in that roll of the dice that sent me here. It didn’t look like it…

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  • On The Road, At Last: Katakolo & The Peloponnese

    Diana Farr Louis

    “The invitation jolted us out of our doldrums; we hardly had to think twice. We needed a change desperately, couldn’t face going to the island and spending days getting the house, empty for…

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  • Remembering Culinary Gazientep

    Diana Farr Louis

    “When I first met Filiz Hosukoglu at my first Oldways Conference on Crete in 1997, she impressed me with her quiet manner, her knowledge—about food and about life—and her stories about Gaziantep, her…

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  • Revisiting The Magical Island of Chios

    Diana Farr Louis

    “It’s been so long since I’ve been anywhere beyond my own backyard(s)—Athens and Andros—that I’m beginning to feel a nagging wanderlust. All the fuss involved in going abroad doesn’t tempt me, but how…

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  • Dr. Harilaos Louis & Athenian Xmases of the 1930s

    Diana Farr Louis

    Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis The iconic Greek family at their dinner table. Author’s Note: “When I was young, growing up on Long Island, my father used to…

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  • An Ill Wind

    Diana Farr Louis

    “Does your life feel like a microcosm of what’s going on in the greater world? That everything that could go wrong is going wrong? Nothing as dramatic or appalling as being targeted by…

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  • Homage To an Important Anniversary

    Diana Farr Louis

    “Looking back over all that has happened since the 4th of June, 1972, it seems I was extraordinarily fortunate in that roll of the dice that sent me here. It didn’t look like it…

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  • Memories of Snow

    Diana Farr Louis

    “The storm is called ‘Elpida,’ or Hope, but does it bring hope with it? Hope that our lemon tree on Andros will not suffer frostbite; hope for all the citrus groves in Greece—for…

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