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Category Archives: PEOPLE  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 […]  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 […]  I recall that I didn’ t even feel like having lunch on that day… It was the first time I had ever visited Ios and I was only there for work. By the time I had finished with my meeting, it was already noon, the sun was high in the sky and everything felt […]  Living on an island somewhere in the Aegean Sea, is like living on a star; it’s the strange feeling of being part of a constellation, yet disconnected at the same time.. It’s this Sea that sets us free, and it’s this Sea that draws our limits.. Our islands swim through a golden light. […]
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