“It was not like my father to go without dessert. He whose favorite maxim was, ‘A bit of sweet makes the meal complete.’ For a week or so, I’d go straight to my…

“Candili, named after the mountain above it, is one of the oldest foreign-owned properties in Greece. Formerly named Achmetaga, it was bought by Annabella Byron’s cousin Edward Noel from Hadji Ishmail Bey, an…

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “Sometimes it seems as though I’m a summer slave to the pomodoro—so christened by the Italians because the first tomatoes to hit their…

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “August is the cruellest month, breeding/Fires out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and despair, stirring/Dry leaves with frantic winds.” T. S. Eliot, “The…

“Alexis Ladas, my first Athenian, was born in 1920, a whole generation before I came into this world on a different continent. By the time he was 24, my age when we met,…

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “My brother thought he’d died and gone to heaven, for most of our friends were his age and female. I was sometimes restless,…

“Vlita satisfies the virtually insatiable Greek craving for greenery, cultivated and wild. When just picked and lightly cooked, its subtle, delicate flavor even makes it a candidate for the poor man’s asparagus title:…

“We made friends instantly—he cultivates visitors with tremendous warmth and, in the age-old Greek manner, plies them with food and waters them with fiery tsipouro, before he even knows your name. Over a…

“As Eleni calmly composed her ingredients, it was obvious that the most important was intangible. Agape or love permeated every dish, which is why they’re so difficult to replicate. As she told me,…

“It all began on a tennis court in the late 80s. I was co-editing a magazine for a Greek hotel chain and, since we were writing most of the articles ourselves under pseudonyms,…