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The Pros & Cons Of Fasting
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—4/25/11—“What’s been the hardest thing to give up during these six weeks of Orthodox fasting?” It’s the second question that comes…
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Memories Of Japan: A Paean to Perfection
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—4/11/11—The strawberry vendor shook his head dolefully. “Very sorry, Madam. I have strawberries for this afternoon, strawberries for this evening and…
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A Lenten Diary
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—Weekly Hubris—(3/28/11)—Two weeks of fasting, Greek-style, have been fun and not even challenging. Tuesday after Clean Monday Invited to a ladies lunch…
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To Fast Or Not To Fast? Or Feasting While Fasting
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—3/14/11—By the time you read this, we will be one week into Lent. In Greece, always a little bit different from…
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Memories of Cairo, 1964 (or Four Proposals & A Wedding)
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—2/28/11—“I have to go to Cairo for the weekend, would you like to come?” How’s that for an opening gambit? I…
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Getting to Know My Mother
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—2/14/11—My new mother was a storyteller. She made the most mundane things exotic and fascinating. To start with, she’d been born…
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A Love Story
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—1/31/11—I fell in love for the first time at the age of eight. With a woman. Luckily, my father loved her,…
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Sweet & Sour—All About Lemons
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—1/17/10—Remember the old song, “Lemon tree very pretty and its flower is so sweet, but the fruit of the poor lemon…
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Red Glows In Grey Istanbul
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—1/3/10—To say that I arrived in a downpour would be an understatement. The taxi from Ataturk Airport into town seemed to…
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An Athens Christmas
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—12/20/10—Summer lasted in fair Hellas this year until the 11th of December. The rest of Europe was paralyzed by snow and…