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Remembering Rapallo—A Year In The Life
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “It was May 1971 and I was sitting on the sofa in the darkened living room of the Bacigalupo family in central Rapallo,…
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Thanksgiving Reconsidered
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “It’s the end of November and we haven’t even thought of turning on the central heating. With the lilacs blooming down the street,…
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Olive Picking Season on Andros
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “For anyone living in the butter zone, this enslavement to the olive must be difficult to understand. But those of us with our…
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Everything’s Coming Up Mushrooms—In Evia, Greece
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “When we got to the cultivation ‘hangars,’ perhaps a kilometer away, the aroma of mushrooms in the air outside was more than tempting—and…
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Gone To Beach, Rabbit On Back Burner
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis “They came for a lightning visit, four nights and three days, all the way from Paris. We had basked in their hospitality so…
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From Andros To Folegandros: A Journey Back In Time
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis “The journey I’m about to describe took place a few years ago, but it could well have happened four or five decades ago.…
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Why I Love My Spatula
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge “I love it, not only for its brilliant design and usefulness, but because it was a gift from my oldest brother, Shelty or, more formally, Frederick Shelton…
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The Fires of August: Tragedy on Chios
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge “Of all the fires ablaze at this moment, I am most sickened by those on Chios, the large, historic island in the north Aegean off the coast…
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Sea Urchin Season
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge “Foraging for sea urchins is a serious business, requiring special equipment: besides mask, snorkel, and flippers, one needs a net bag or basket for collecting them and…
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Remembering (Olympic) Athens 2004
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge “When then-Prime-Minister Simitis announced triumphantly to the country on 5 September 1997 that Athens had won the right to hold the Olympic Games in 2004, many Greeks…