I finally made it into one of my all-time favorite food columns with an essay (with recipes) on one of my all-time favorite food rituals, the summer meze.
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New Story: Meze Nights on NPR.org’s Kitchen Window
August 25, 2009 – 8:04 pm
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in Essays, Food
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Also tagged Colorado, friends, Mediterranean, meze, North Carolina, tapas
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Ottoman Whispers in a Secret Corner of Greece
June 27, 2009 – 1:58 pm
THE old men in skullcaps hiked up the cobblestone steps in the last bruised light of dusk. They passed Gypsy merchants draped in rugs that were for sale, engineering students on post-cafe strolls and children chattering in an acrobatic blend of Greek, Turkish and the Slavic language of the Pomaks. They didn’t notice I was [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in My Articles, The New York Times, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged East Macedonia, Kavala, Komotini, Ottoman, Pomakochoria, Pomaks, Rhodope, Thrace, Travel, Xanthi
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Days of Wild Oregano and Goatherds
August 22, 2008 – 2:34 pm
THE NEW YORK TIMES
July 27, 2008
Journeys | Crete
Days of Wild Oregano and Goatherds
A SPIRALING, slightly treacherous dirt road leads to Aspros Potamos, an enclave of 300-year-old cottages in eastern Crete once used by olive farmers and goatherds. Peaceful and primitive, with stone floors, oil lamps for light and a starry night sky, the cottages, [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in My Articles, The New York Times, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged Aspros Potamos, Crete, donkeys, Itanos, oregano, Palaikastro
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Edging Closer in a Divided Capital
May 17, 2008 – 2:37 pm
The New York Times
May 18, 2008
Journeys | Nicosia, Cyprus
LIKE most of Nicosia, the Atolye Cadi Kazani Cafe feels nostalgic. It is awash in jazzy piano music, the scent of cardamom-spiced coffee and an Ottoman ambience that reminds the owner, Nilgun Guney, of her grandmother’s house.
“This is the magic zone,” said Ms. Guney, a Turkish Cypriot [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in My Articles, The New York Times, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged Cyprus, Nicosia, Turkey
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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 Athens, Mount Lycabettus
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Crete, With Strings Attached
December 8, 2007 – 3:53 pm
Crete, With Strings Attached
Sunday, December 9, 2007
The rugged Greek island of Crete may be the last place on Earth where kids love their grandparents’ music so much that they play it every weekend.
In Rethymnon, a pretty seaside town of about 40,000 people, the wail of the ancestral lyra always trumps the boom-thud of European [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in My Articles, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged Crete, En Chordais, music, Rethymnon
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