Have you ever been lost in the Italian rice fields? You only realize that Italy is the biggest rice producer of Europe when you drive long them. But Greece also produces rice, although a lot less than Italy. When you compare the Greek kitchen to the Italian one... continue reading
The earth growls and shakes, the umpteenth southern storm of this winter pulls at branches and roof tiles, the second layer of snow has disappeared as quickly as the wind is raging; another storm enters, this time unrooting trees with the promise of... continue reading
In 1970 the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach became a worldwide bestseller. It is a fable about a seagull who wants more than what’s on offer in the colony of gulls where he lives and where life mainly consists of searching for food. Jonathan wants to fly and he spends so much time just flying that... continue reading
The world is under the spell of the virus and the power game in America, where unthinkable things are happening. Lots of countries, like Greece, suffer from a lockdown. The hope is that vaccinations will soon... continue reading
The advantage of corona might be that the Christmas stress for the Christmas Cook might be tempered, because officially you may not cook for grand companies. However, a Christmas Menu still has to be composed, although this corona year it maybe not be as... continue reading
Eating a fig in fact is eating flowers. They can be consumed directly from the tree. But there are also plenty of recipes for dried figs as well as forfresh figs. Not easy to find new recipes, but here is a new one: a refreshing figs-eggs-avocado salad, http://smitakislesvos.com/en/eating-fig-flowers/
Seeing a wall of flames racing towards you and the house, makes your worst nightmare come true. But there was so much luck that day: the house, the animals and everybody were okay after lots of people together with the fire brigade managed to put the fire out: http://smitakislesvos.com/en/1505-2/
