by julescatering | Jan 11, 2012 | Cookbooks, Entertaining, Our Favorite Things, Products, Recipes, Restaurants, Travel
We love our bubbly, but when recently celebrating New Year’s Eve in Athens, our drink of choice was the Tears of Chios Cocktail served in the Roof Garden Bar atop the historic Hotel Grande Bretagne on Syntagma Square. At first sip we knew we were onto something...
by julescatering | Jan 5, 2012 | Cookbooks, Food History, Food In Art, Our Favorite Things, Travel
Athenaeus, a scholar of food history who lived around 200 AD, observed that “the ancients employed many dishes to whet the appetite.” Focusing now on actual dishes–i.e., plates–we couldn’t agree more. Ancient vessels On a recent visit to...
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