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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…
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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…