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What’s left after the Sunday flea market in Athens?
January 13, 2010 – 3:26 pm
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in Photos, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged Cretan grandfathers, Crete, flea market, portrait
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36 Hours in Athens
May 3, 2008 – 3:24 pm
The New York Times
May 4, 2008
FOR years, Athens was little more than a one-night stand on the way to the Greek isles. Concretized and crowded, it lived off its archaeological sites and dirty-dancing-on-tables night life. But now a visit has become more than just a quickie for the sake of the Parthenon. Athens is reinventing [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in My Articles, The New York Times, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged Acropolis, Evzones, Mount Hymettus, National Gardens
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High on a Hill, With an Acropolis View
April 23, 2008 – 5:16 am
The New York Times
April 20, 2008
Greek myth has it that an enraged Athena created Lycabettus Hill after she dropped an uprooted mountain she intended to use for construction of the Acropolis. This “other hill” turned out to be the tallest in Athens, at about 900 feet above sea level. Named after the [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in My Articles, The New York Times, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged Greece, Mount Lycabettus
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Foraging: Mastihashops
November 10, 2007 – 2:35 am
The New York Times
November 11, 2007
The aromatic resin from the mastiha, or lentisk, tree on the Greek island of Chios has flavored potions, sweets and cosmetics in the eastern Mediterranean for thousands of years. In more recent times, entrepreneurs have been transforming the fresh burst-of-sweet, hint-of-bitter sap known in Greece as mastiha into a [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in Food, My Articles, The New York Times, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged Chios, Greece, mastic, mastihashop
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