“This was the second column I contributed to Weekly Hubris, and I reprint it here with photos and a recipe in celebration of what is almost the fourth anniversary of our online magazine.…

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “These are the reminiscences of my husband Harilaos, known to some of you as ‘Joy of the People.’ a rough translation of his…

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “When at last my number came up, my magic card-key opened the door with a presto gismo, and I entered a suite almost…

A Love Story “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…

 “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,…