Lunch in Marathon: Pork chops – Lamb offal (Gardoumbes) – Aubergines

Among other things, I have recently moved out of the metropolitan area of Athens to the hills overlooking Marathon, some

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String beans with bacalao – Αμπελοφασουλα με βακαλαο

Today’s dish belongs to the minimalist school, and as such requires tender loving care for the flavors and the textures.

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Cosi fan tutte, ossia La Scuola degli Amanti – Thus Do They All, or The School For Lovers

Mozart’s opera buffa is a perplexing one, and in spite of appearances, a very dark one indeed. It is this

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Culatello: Il Re dei Salumi – The King of Salami

In late August of 2011, I was on my way to Milan’s Linate Airport to catch a flight. As I

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Jenny Saville, Painter

Back in 2010, I wrote on painting the human body. One of the artists whose works I included in the post

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Aurora – Dawn – Χαραμα

The landscape is barren. There are a few burned trees. But the symphony of colors enveloping the tortured landscape is beautiful, almost

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Roula, Despoinarion, Manolis

This is a thank you note to the three champions of commenting on this blog. They are: Roula with 100

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Panathinaikos on the Obama – Erdogan agenda

Στη συναντηση Ομπαμα – Ερντογαν στο Λευκο Οικο, συζητηθηκε και η αγορα των μετοχων του Παναθηναικου. Ιδου η στιχομυθια: Ομπαμα:

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Salaam Aleikum (*) Panathinaikos!

(*) Salaam aleikum means ‘peace be upon you’. (*) Σαλαμ αλεκουμ σημαινει “πορευου εν ειρηνη”. Και ιδου, εντω μεσω της

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Greece as Manon Lescaut in the Louisiana swamps: "sola, perduta, abbandonata"

In the early hours of Friday, 2nd September 2011, the attempt to rescue Greece from bancrupty suffered yet another setback.

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