• Sailing With The Costa Line, 1971

    Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—2/13/12—With the horrific photos of the gleaming cruise ship keeling over within spitting distance of the Italian shore, my thoughts naturally…

  • An Outing in Attica, Greek Style

    Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—1/16/12—The plan should have been foolproof. We’d set out in separate cars, but the destination seemed straightforward enough. We’d meet at…

  • Tis The Season . . .

    Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis KIFISSIA Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—12/5/2011—Well, it isn’t really the season to be jolly, not quite, and yet bright lights are already twirled like beaded snakes…

  • It’s An Ill Wind . . .

    “Eating Well Is The Best Revenge” by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—11/21/11—In the 60s, when I was a resident of the Big Apple, the Fifth Avenue buses used to stream downtown with…

  • Still Out Picking, Part Deux

    Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—11/7/11—Well, it’s that time of year again, olive-picking time, and although we’ve been on the island for a week, strong, nay…

  • Midday In Paris

    Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—10/24/11—Like Woody Allen’s hero, Gil, in Midnight in Paris, I always wanted to have lived in Paris in the 1920s. Unlike…

  • 24 Hours On Mykonos

    Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—10/10/11—We’ve been to fabled Mykonos enough times not to need to revisit, but when my dear friend, “The Fish,” confessed that…