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Thoughts while looking out my window…   I am standing in front of my window, watching the ferry sailing. It must have left Naxos about an hour ago, and it is now sailing to Ios and Thira. A few hours later I will watch it return with all its deck lights on, like floating candles, on […]

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The Blue Star ferries that arrive on the islands this weekend are full of passengers, as if  it was August… It is the Kathari Deftera (Net Monday), a public holiday for Greece. On that special day that signifies the end of the carnival festivities and the beginning of the forty day fasten that ends with […]

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The small table by the sea: is this picture familiar to you? It could be in Paros, Naxos, Sifnos or in Folegandros… Since the 1950s, the trademark small table by the sea, surrounded by sea trees and the songs of crickets, waits for couples in love to come and rest. There will always be the waiter, […]

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  Ιn how many ways can a cook experience a meal preparation? How does it feel like when you’re cooking for hundreds of people as part of a religious ritual? How does it feel like preparing old recipes that have travelled through time, in order to feed pilgrims that pray to a Saint? It is when […]

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