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To Live or To Write? That Is The Question
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge “Then, I might stare at the laptop screen for a few minutes until I remember a phone call that must be made. Today—and this is five days…
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Jam Session & An Homage to Tate & Lyle
“This year, our plum trees have been working overtime. There are only two of them, thank God, but each has contributed hundreds of perfect, wine-red fruit, brushed with undertones of pale yellow. These…
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Riots And Revolutions In Athens: Greening Greece’s Rooftops
“Andrew Michael Clements doesn’t look like a radical. He has no tattoos nor piercings; black leather jacket nor fiery eyes. But the 40-something Englishman/naturalized Greek does have a plan to revolutionize his adopted…
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Back To The Future In Evia: Village Life In The 21st Century
“This is the Greece we fell in love with, Annie and I, so many decades ago. And, guess what? It’s still here. My bet is that no matter what happens after our (next)…
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Goodbye “Pesto,” Hello “Moussaka”
“On June 4th, John met me at the boat and led the way from Piraeus to Maroussi. Don’t know how I extracted the car from Customs; the rest of the luggage stayed behind…
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Greeks Help Out in Africa: A Health Center Nears Completion in Tanzania
“Initially, I was focused on protecting the wildlife and their habitats, but I soon realized that it’s not just Nature we need to protect, it’s the people in the region. I began to…
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May Day, May Day!
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis “. . .instead of following Eckhard Tolle’s advice and living in and for the moment, we found ourselves traveling back in time to…
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Food Aid Takes Off In Athens: When Help is Literally Just Around the Corner
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—3/19/12—Did you know that one in eleven residents of greater Athens visits a soup kitchen daily? That’s about 400,000 people, a…
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The Power of Now?
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—3/12/12—There is nothing like a country house to keep you focused on the present. Especially a summer house on a Greek…
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Cucina Povera, Greek Style
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—2/27/12—Cucina povera, the Italian expression meaning the Cuisine of the Poor, is starting to have a new ring to it here…