“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…
ON A COLD WINTER NIGHT…
….walnuts and thyme honey. (Photo credit: Mariana Kavroulaki)
MUSHROOMS, FUNGI, AMANITAS, MANITARIA, MANITES
In olden times, Greeks had a love of mushrooms of many kinds, supported by extensive knowledge, particularly among men and to some extent hunters and villagers. Rural populations considered mushrooms as ‘meat’ for the poor and relied on them when…