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Making olive oil in the Lesbos mountains
Where: Komi, Lesvos (Lesbos), Greece π¬π·
Finding the Tzortzis olive orchards is a bit of a journey, in and of itself.
For me the journey started at the restaurant, Mezedopoleio 28, in Mytilene, the largest town on the Greek island of…
Living a dream in Lesvos, Greece π¬π·
Where: Skala Eressos & Mesotopos, Lesvos (Lesbos), Greece π¬π·
"Everything my baby," Magdalini Vassila said as we entered her ceramic shop, Magdalini Ceramics Studio.
"Ceramics is not that you know, it's that you feel it." She…
A family & their olive orchard in Lesbos
Where: Village of Mistegna, Lesbos (Lesvos), Greece π¬π·
βCome with me,β Effie said.
She exited her property and we began walking down a gravel path too narrow for a vehicle.
I was in Lesbos, Greece. On a trip from the islandβs…
Family of ceramacists in northern Lesbos
Where: Mantamados, Lesbos, Greece π¬π·
"This is a whistle," Efthymia picked up a ceramic object in the shape of a bird. "A whistle with a duck."
"But the most traditional whistle is this..." She set the object down and walked over to…
Making Ouzo on the Island of Lesbos
Where: Mitylene, Lesbos, Greece π¬π·
Before making my first trip to Greece nine years ago I remember an old Canadian friend writing to me by email something along the lines of, "Have an Ouzo for me."
I arrived on the Island of Lesbos…
O Sergis βΒ 100 years in Chios, Greece
Where: Port Mesta, Chios, Greece π¬π·
It was the "1923" embedded on the sign that hung overtop of the restaurant's long veranda entrance that caught my attention as I was finishing up a plate of sardines at Port Mesta located in southern…
Roussiko βΒ A Chios marina-side restaurant
Where: Chios, Greece π¬π·
Markelos Kontos, one of the two proprietors at Roussiko (Ξ‘ΞΞ₯ΣΣΞΞΞ) had difficulty putting into words why he started the restaurant with his friend and business partner, Sotiris Stratakis.
"I don't have a…
The freshest fish in Chios
Where: Chios, Greece π¬π·
βThis is the freshest fish on the island,β Klaidi Carja, a server at Ihtheoskala Fresh local fish tavern said to me as I was getting ready to settle my early afternoon bill: a Greek salad and a Greek beer.
I…
Health properties of Mastic tree resin
Where: Chios, Greece π¬π·
"Mastic has many properties, to the skin, to the teeth," Maria Stavrinoudi, a pharmacist and one of hte proprietors at Mastic Origins, a boutique along the marina on the Island of Chios said to me.
I had…