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Talking Turkey
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—12/6/10—I couldn’t face Thanksgiving this year. The flurry of Thanksgiving survival kits dropping into my inbox, the relentless online prescriptions for…
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The Souffle That Didn’t Flop
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—11/22/10—Way back in the 1960’s, Oh Best Beloved, I was a young mother living in Manhattan. At the time of this…
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Cooking & Feasting In Gaziantep, Turkey
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—11-8-2010—I’m sitting here nibbling on a bright green cylinder that’s about 3 inches long and 1 inch in diameter. It’s sweet…
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Still Out Picking
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—10/11/10—A month ago I received an e-mail from a friend: “I’ve been trying to call you. Never any answer. You’re probably…
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Pserimos, A Fairy Tale
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—9/27/10—I’ll bet you’ve never heard of the island of Pserimos. Don’t feel ignorant. Few Greeks have. It’s a speck in the…
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Are You Eating Real Food?
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—9/13/10—This is the scene. It’s the mid-50’s in the Long Island suburb where I grew up. And it’s supper time. Around…
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‘Yunanistan Amigos’: Cruising In Turkey, August, 1997
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—8/30/10—Thirteen years ago this month, my spouse, “Joy of the People,” and I joined four close friends on a 12-day cruise…
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“And The Livin’ Is Easy”
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS, GREECE—(Weekly Hubris) —(8/16/10)—You may have read about Greece’s ongoing problems this summer—a truckers’ strike, slowdowns at airports, stranded cruise boat passengers—as workers…
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“The Way To My Heart”
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—7/26/10—He was tall, dark and very handsome. The first meal he fed me was caviar and pheasant under glass—something that had…
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“Jam Session”
Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ANDROS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—7/12/10—This year our plum trees have been working overtime. There are only two of them, thank God, but each has contributed…