“In truth at first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundation of al the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest…
FOOD FOR THE DEAD
As a puff of wind, the psyche leaves the body at the moment of death. Marble grave stele of a little girl, ca. 450–440 B.C (commons.wikimedia.org/) Then, either enjoying the easy life in the Elysian Fields or wandering as weeping shadow among the…
FISH SOUP FOR THOUGHT
Behind this fish -soup there is a long history of fear and courage. Because, in the ancient thought the sea was a hostile, lonely world with sea monsters and fishes which were frightening to humans…. the only animal eaten in eastern Mediterranean…
CHRISTMAS #2. Pig killing & animal sacrifice
Large numbers of pig carcasses are hanging on hooks in butcher shops. Christmas day is near…. Because the pig is the traditional meat for the most regions in Greece. And the days before and after Christmas is the peak of…
MAGEIROS, The sacrifice & the cuisine.
“Mageiros” in Greek means cook (the) and “mageirevo” I cook. One of earliest attestations of the word is a dedicative inscription by a mageiros in Epidavros (early 5th century, IG, IV2, I.144). However, the mageiros was not primarily a cook but…