Dinner Party on the occasion of Despoinarion's Oscar Celebration and Awards

 Today’s post is a celebration for Despoinarion‘s Oscar Awards.  The celebration is double in nature: we celebrate first the award

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La Dolce Vita – Fellini's Masterpiece

“The film first impinged on the world at large in February 1960 when foreign journalists reported back to their readers,

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Trattoria e Locanda La Buca, Zibello, Parma, Italia

This post is long overdue, but better late than never. I visited La Buca four years ago, and it is

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Images of Theotokos, the Mother of God – From North to South

Today we are celebrating the Dormition of the Mother of God, Theotokos, and I want to share with you some

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Pissaladiere with smoked herring

Pissaladiere is a pizza-like dish of the South of France. Its name comes from the word pissalat (“salted fish”). It

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Poeme electronique: The Phillips Pavilion in the 1958 Brussels World Fair

This post is about the joint work of three modern day geniuses: Le Corbusier, Edgard Varese, and Iannis Xenakis: Poeme

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Meat Rolls with Eggplants and Sudjuk

As the crisis in Greece deepens, and the country becomes more and more indebted and troubled, I dig deep in

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Artichokes Jewish Style – Carciofi alla Giudea

This is a classic dish, and a very tasty one! I was in Rome for one day and had the

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Lunch 26th December 2009 – Toscana meets Thessaly

On the 26th December is the name day of my “brother”, Manolis. We have made it a tradition that every

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Giuseppe Ungaretti – Poet

Giuseppe Ungaretti is one of the giants of modern Italian poetry. He is the second modern Italian poet I present

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