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Greece - Crete

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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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  • Big lunch on saturday with the Moschonas family. In and around the village of Meronas.
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  • Big lunch on saturday with the Moschonas family. In and around the village of Meronas.
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  • Local café near Meronas.
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  • Peanuts, a rolled cigarette, an orange, coffee and a shot of local Raki. Stop at the local café. In and around the village of Meronas.
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  • Picking wild herbs to feed his rabbits.
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  • Picking red cabbage. Visiting vegetable fields of Areti and Fanouris Alexopoulou, a farmer couple in Mires Village.
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  • Picking red cabbage in Mires Village.
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  • Destroyed cabbage. The unit price is so low it's not even worth transporting it to the market place - it would end up costing the farmer. Instead, the farmer must drive his tractor over his entire field, to smash the rotting cabbages : they will at least fertilise the soil. Visiting vegetable fields of Areti and Fanouris Alexopoulou, a farmer couple in Mires Village.
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  • In the rural village of Moires, Crete, farmer Fanouris Alexopoulou prunes his olive trees in the spring so they will bear more fruit. That will provide Alexopoulou’s family with more olive oil, a source of income as well as a staple of their diet. In parts of the grove, the farmer tills the ground between the trees and plants potatoes, fava beans, and other vegetables.
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  • Diner in Matala.
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  • Mediterranean breakfast of olives, oranges, pomegranate, nuts, dried tomatoes etc. Pyrgos village.
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  • Gathering beetroot, Pyrgos village.
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  • Beetroot for lunch, Pyrgos village.
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  • A man tends to his vineyard in Crete. The history of wine spans thousands of years. Apparently, Paleolithic humans enjoyed it out of animal-skin pouches! Moderate consumption is said to be good for your heart and spirit... Enough said?
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  • A field of olive trees.
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  • View over surroundings of Athens.
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  • Adonis Gligoris gathers parsley, accompanied by his children and a friend (left); fish from the Mediterranean, snails and vegetables from the fields, and wine from local grapes (right).
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  • Daily feast : fish from the Mediterranean, fava beans, wild greens, snails from the fields, and wine from local grapes
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