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Greece - Crete

43 images Created 11 Dec 2014

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  • Local café, Archane village.
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  • A blessed Cretan landscape : olive groves, vineyards and a winding road.
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  • Washing tomatoes to grate them. At Nikos home. In and around Archane village.
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  • In and around Meronas village, Central Crete, below Mount Psiloritis, the highest mountain on Crete.
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  • Fresh goat cheese with kumquat jam.
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  • In Meronas, a farmer prunes his olive trees in the spring so they will bear more fruit. That will provide his family with more olive oil, a source of income as well as a staple of their diet.
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  • Trimming olive trees so it produces more olives this summer and therefore  more olive oil, the basis of the Mediterranean diet. In and around Meronas village, Central Crete.
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  • Trimming olive trees so it produces more olives this summer and therefore  more olive oil, the basis of the Mediterranean diet. In and around Meronas village, Central Crete.
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  • Vangelio picks wild herbs near her home in the village of Meronas in central Crete.
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  • Gathering wild greens, cretan style.
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  • Most of us see it as grass, but 80 something Vangelio sees it as food, lots of it. I was amazed at how people in rural Crete can just head out into nature and identify "horta", wild greens - as many as 40 different types.
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  • Fried Geranium leaves for lunch.
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  • Saturday lunch is a prolonged and bountiful meal at the home of Popi and Costas Moschonas, who live in the village of Meronas in central Crete. The family serves a homemade rose wine with dishes made using local ingredients (from left): stuffed grape leaves, an egg omelet green with herbs, and potatoes fried in olive oil.
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  • A singer and a gardener, Thomas gets most of his food from his vegetable garden. Here he talks Greek philosophy beside his artichokes.
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  • At the vegetable garden of Thomas Venakis, from which he takes all his vegetables. Zouridi village.
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  • A singer and a gardener, Thomas gives us a visit of his vegetable garden - from which he gets most of his food - and cooks us lunch.
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  • Lunch of potatoes, fava beans, tomatoes cooked with olive oil. At the house of Thomas Venakis, in Zouridi village.
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  • Cretan orange grove.
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  • Oranges, chards and wine. Simple lunch after picking vegetables with Manolis in Spili village.
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  • Cretan landscape. In and around the village of Meronas.
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  • Hanging out in front of the church in Meronas, making friends.
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  • Cleaning up the wild herbs gathered in the nearby fields. Family diner in Meronas village.
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  • Farmer in front of crosses decoration near a church. In and around the village of Meronas.
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  • Hand picked snails for lunch, at the Moschonas family. In and around the village of Meronas.
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  • Family lunch. The people of Crete, the largest of the Greek islands, eat a rich variety of foods drawn from their groves and farms and the sea. They lived on a so-called Mediterranean diet long before it became a fad.
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