- Top Chef contestant and Greek-American Marissa Churchill is interviewed in Greece’s “Eltherotypia” on the release of her first book, “Sweet & Skinny”
- Theodoros Pantaleon, Thessaloniki’s master of herbs & spices
- Traditional menus are winning over modern, “nouveau” Greek cuisine
- A community on the Black Sea (north-east Turkey) discovered where they speak an Romeyka, an Ancient Greek language
- Groupon and other discount schemes reach the restaurant scene in Greece
- The northern Greek town of Naousa is worth the 1 hour side trip from Thessaloniki
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Super interesting article about that community in Turkey who speaks this obscure ancient Greek and never marry outside their villages. Reminds me of a community of people in North Lebanon who were found to speak a Turkish dialect dating back several centuries. Fascinating