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Category Archives: LIFE .jpg) The flavours of our childhood As the weather here in Greece is getting warmer and the days become brighter, my friends and I started having our Sunday gatherings in yards and balconies. There’s nothing like talking to your friends while having a soft drink in a yard full of flowers; listening to the birds singing… […]  I really don’t know why I love this picture so much…. It was taken during an afternoon walk, when Christos and I were exploring an abandoned garden – one of the so many that can be seen inside traditional island settlements. This old carved wooden door has probably been lying there on its green mattress […]  Revithia Fournou (Wood-fired oven baked chickpeas) Made by Mr. Spyros Tsigonias This is a post about the day that my uncle Spyros invited us to his house in the country, to show us how he cooks a typical and loved recipe of the Aegean islands that he masters very well: Revithia (chickpeas) baked in a […]  A story and a recipe… The 25th of March is a double celebration day in Greece. It is the anniversary of the day that the Greeks-under the motto Freedom or Death- started their revolution against the Turkish occupation in 1821, that led to their indepenence. It is also a religious celebration of the Evangelismos tis […]  A blessed island! My father loves to tell me stories about his childhood in Paros. There ‘s the story about how at the age of twelve he helped his family friend Mr. Vrochas to make and sell the first ice creams in their village, and the story starts like this: Mr. Vrochas went to Naxos […] |
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