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Christmas In Athens, An Ancient Greek Remembers
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—12/19/11—Crises bring up memories of other crises, and this country has had more than its share in the past hundred years:…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Chios Dreams—Looking On The Bright Side
“Eating Well Is The Best Revenge” by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—9/12/2011—The Greeks have a saying about their countrymen from the island of Chios in the northeast Aegean. “The Chiots go about…
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Tavernas—An Endangered Species?
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece— (Weekly Hubris)—8/29/2011—When people ask what I like best about living in Greece, I along with many other expats and locals often…
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The Way It Crumbles: Or, When Things Go Wrong In The Kitchen
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—8/15/11—I’d been looking forward to making the olive cookies for weeks. Ever since my friend and fellow food writer Diane Kochilas…
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Vlita, A Humble Green; Or, What’s In A Dish?
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—8/1/11—The other night, we were sitting in a taverna when one dish leapt out of the menu: Vlita sauced with tomato…