In the last newsletter describing our ‘summer highlights’ we had to leave out two very important visitors whom we are now privileged to consider our dear friends: Journalist and Saveur kitchen director Hunter Lewis, and photographer Penny de los Santos.
They joined us here on Kea in-between our two May programs. Together we cooked and grilled, enjoyed lunches and dinners, while tireless Penny recorded everything in her inspiring photographs. Costas hiked to the ancient temples with Hunter, and we had the most wonderful time with two incredibly warm and talented people! We wouldn’t exaggerate if we said that some of us shed tears the night we parted, as Hunter and Penny boarded the ferry to Lavrion.
Based on my mother’s recipe my version of the ubiquitous dish is more like a gratin as it was probably in the old days.
“How come we have never heard, let alone tasted, any of these unbelievably delicious cheeses?” exclaimed one of the most informed foodies who took part in our Kea Artisanal classes this season. Our guests were fascinated and genuinely surprised by the samples from our diverse Greek cheese board.
I am not the first one to observe that TV food has long ago stopped being about taste, cooking, talent or tradition, becoming one more excuse for a sensational voyeuristic show, not unlike the uncovering of yet one more Egyptian mummy…
After reading Corby’s Maple Mystery -- especially the last bit where fenugreek imparts the maple syrup flavor to ice cream-- at last I understood why I hate maple syrup, one of the very few flavors I can’t stand; one other is fenugreek...
Besides supplying us with their delicious edible buds, artichokes, if left to blossom, surprise you with their furry stunningly purple and huge flowers.
Federico Ferro, a young pharmacist from Genoa’s Sestri Levante, is the proud winner of this year’s 
I had lots of weird pets when I was little, they’d never get me a dog, so I had to satisfy myself with various creepy creatures.
“Do you like my red eggs? I made them as we do in the Ukraine,” said last year Tatiana, my late mother’s companion.
Greek women believe that bread rises by divine intervention. If you tell them that a batter of flour and water will ferment from the various airborne microorganisms if left for a few days, they refuse to believe it.
YES, we celebrated and dared to have a good time, despite the mounting fiscal problems of our country and the doom scenarios hovering over Greece’s economy...- 1 of 4
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