The combination of ground cereal grains and milk or yogurt to produce a highly nutritious, storable foodstuff is a common practice among the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean. There are two Cretan variations under this category: xinochondros (sour ground wheat)…
FOOD & MEMORY
1. I begin with two anecdotes. a) When my friend Stavroula Markoulaki, archaeologist and president of the Historical, Folklore and Archaeological Society of Crete, ate a piece of fresh xinohondros during the Saturday branch of the 1 st Symposium of…
FOOD & MEMORY
1. I begin with two anecdotes. a) When my friend Stavroula Markoulaki, archaeologist and president of the Historical, Folklore and Archaeological Society of Crete, ate a piece of fresh xinohondros during the Saturday branch of the 1 st Symposium of…
AFTER THE 1st SYMPOSIUM OF GREEK GASTRONOMY
It is more than three weeks that the 1st of the Symposia on Greek Gastronomy is over but since I can say that it went very well, I wanted to share some thoughts on it … Speakers were the most…
OLIVE TREE…
(Olivepress- Art Factory, Dromonero/Chania)