The bill, which passed parliament on Tuesday, opens up protected nature sites to oil exploration and construction projects, writes Anastasia Miari, in Athens.
The Venetian old town, normally crammed with cruise ship day-trippers, has been repatriated to cold coffee-sipping locals. Beaches and bays boasting the best water are free to swim in, without the threat of an incoming yacht.
An opening party for the building of a ‘holiday village’ in northern Corfu has been met with heavy resistance from residents of the island.
Empty sun loungers, closed sea-front tavernas, an absence of sleek and shiny white yachts at the marina: not all is as it should be this summer in Corfu.
With its countless fine archaeological sites, Athens is the sort of city you need to peruse from a high perch. And if you can drink some delicious Greek coffee while taking in the view, even better.
Ancient archaeological sites, cultural celebrations and afternoons by the water make Athens a great family-friendly vacation spot.
No longer just a brief stop-off before hot-footing it to the Greek Islands, Athens is drawing in city break visitors and travellers keen for a taste of the chaos that makes this city so unique.
It is only 8am but already the heat in Havana’s old town is oppressive. I join the back of a queue of around 30 or 40 people outside a crumbling colonial townhouse, which is doubling as a makeshift butcher’s shop.
It’s lunchtime in Moscow and the line for Stolovaya 57 is out the door — a 20-person long struggle for borscht, jellied pork, soft boiled vegetables and grated cabbage.
“Palermo is among the top five international street-food destinations in the world – and the only one in Europe,” says Giorgio, our foodie tour guide, as we venture into a bustling Capo Market in the heart of the city’s historical district.
According to statistics website The World Counts, there will be one billion tourist arrivals around the world this year. That’s 30 every second.
“Nicoletta Polo Lanza is restoring author Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's palazzo - by running cooking classes”
Natural beauty, medieval towns and a top party scene: there are so many reasons to visit, says Anastasia Miari"
The rubbish situation on Corfu escalated over the weekend after riot police were deployed to control protests against an illegal landfill site on the south of the Greek island, not far from the party resort of Kavos.
Whitewashed houses offset with primary blue hues and flashes of fuchsia bougainvillea, narrow, winding streets festooned with laundry and centuries-old coastal windmills make it an ideal spot to whip out the old watercolours.
On a Thursday night, galleries overflow with young, well-dressed Athenians who spill out into the street sipping cans of Fix and smoking roll-ups.
With a distinctly different vibe to any other part of town, Exarcheia has retained its old-world Greek charm while welcoming in a new artistic crowd.
Bathed in spring sunlight, sipping on iced coffee and surrounded by young people playing backgammon, this hardly feels like anarchist central. Yet many Greeks still steer clear of Exarcheia, widely known for its politicised riots and molotov cocktail-throwing far left gangs.
“Everyone, from the pot washer to the chefs and waiters is all on the same salary here,” explains Marko Marmatakis – one of three chefs cooking up haute cuisine for us tonight.
GREECE – Trapped in an inner-city apartment during isolation, away from the smallholding I travelled to each spring to plant the summer’s bounty, I didn’t agonise over when I’d next go to the pub. My inner turmoil was, in fact, over tomatoes. Good, home-grown tomatoes.
The pandemic shone a light on how disconnected we had become from food. But according to writer Anastasia Miari, the rise of gastrophysics – combining psychology, cognition and gastronomy – will bring us closer to the sensuality of consumption.
Located between Houston and Austin in the expanse of cattle pastures and springtime bluebonnet wildflowers, The Inn at Dos Brisas is more than just a place to “relax and be at one with nature.”
Montenegro might not be the first place that comes to mind for the wine lover looking to do a vineyard tour, but this country is a prime spot for wine production owing to its fertile land and unique microclimate, which makes it one of the sunniest year-round spots on the Adriatic.
“Kerin doesn’t turn her pots on a wheel, and her raw and sometimes heavy plates carry her fingerprints, left behind to mark every object in its own distinct way.”
“Appetite, hunger, satiated, starved; all can be applied to both our relationship with food and with sex. In fact, humans have forever whipped up the two to form one great gateaux of food-related sexual innuendos, rituals, and fetishist foreplay.”
The worlds in Khan’s books are both beautiful and deeply troubled. Rather than delivering hyper-saturated, Instagram-worthy messages of unerring delight, Khan instead highlights the political situations of the places she finds so fascinating, as well as celebrating the glorious dishes that are seasoned with the history and politics of those countries.
I have never attempted to make a vegan dessert in my life, but am adamant that I will be making the conversion to veganism over the next 12 months. So I set about conquering a vegan meringue after tuning in to see contestants whisking up a replacement for egg whites out of chickpea juice.
Robo-chefs, meatless burgers that bleed, grubs, bugs and 3D-printed dinners may sound like the culinary imaginings of a Ridley Scott film set in the future but, as it transpires, we may well be on the way to cooking, dining and eating in a dramatically different fashion sooner than expected.
It originates from the foothills of the Himalayas and north-western India, North Africa and South East Asia, but moringa is now grown in tropical and subtropical climates all over the world, and it’s very much in demand.
“You’re going for a cookie being like ‘I know this cookie isn’t going to round out my diet, but it’s what’s going to bring me joy’,” extols New York chef Christina Tosi in the trailer for the latest series of Chef’s Table. Judging from the upbeat montage of gelato scooping, precision pastry shaping and saccharine sauce dripping against a head bobbing I Want Candy soundtrack, she’s probably right.
The microgreen, as it is now better (and more fashionably) known, has likely been served to you as part of an elegant plate on a multi-course serving menu in a fancy restaurant. It is those tiny leaves delicately handled with tweezers that you see chefs use on programmes such as Netflix’s Chef’s Table or MasterChef, adding a final note of decoration to an expertly composed dish.
For thousands of years, salt – originally sourced from the mineral remains of lakes and seas, and more recently chemically composed from sodium and chloride – has been a main fixture in our diets. The Romans coined the word “salary” from the Latin word “sal”, for salt, because a soldier’s salary was the amount he was allotted to buy the seasoning. In an ode to salt written in 1912, psychoanalyst Ernest Jones explored the human obsession with salt – apparently, Plato described it as “dear to the Gods”, and Homer called it “divine”.
Rich in flavour, with a thick, deep-brown crust that locks in moisture for days, sourdough bread is fast becoming a sought-after dietary staple for those in the know.
Had I known I’d be in lockdown with just my boyfriend for company for the next two months, I would have turned back round to the olive groves, the sandy beaches and the warm embrace of my grandmother.
To meet the demands of a modern sexual being, polyamory’s open agenda is becoming increasingly attractive…
43 per cent of the world’s population is bilingual, with equal fluency in both the languages they speak. The world’s polyglots (making up 1 per cent, or about 72 million people) speak more than five languages fluently.
When The Body Shop launched its hempseed oil beauty range in 1998, its store in France was raided by the police owing to the contentious source of the extract used in the products: the hemp or cannabis plant.
Here, writer Anastasia Miari recalls the most profound lessons she learned from a year of cooking with grandmothers.
In the grand scheme of our history on the planet, we’re just starting to get used to living in urban settings.
Rest (quite literally) assured, I have tried every single method out there – from the commonsensical to the slightly zany – to cure myself of insomnia. The answer came to me after trying every trick in the book.
New Year’s resolutions are a little like your first teenage love affair. They start with so much promise, hope and expectation, but after a short while – months if you have staying power, weeks if you’re like the rest of us – they lose their appeal and you become distracted and move on to new things.
Very few in the art community imagined how over the course of the next two decades, contemporary art from the Asian and Islamic worlds would become such an important – and even essential – part of the art world.
Move over Maria Callas, there’s a new raven-haired songstress ready to take the mantle as a symbol of Greece’s musical talent.
It is only in recent years though, that the fashion set has called upon the talents of Hollywood for a favour in return. All hail the fashion film, the medium that marries short film and advertising for a dual creative vision that costs mega-bucks and invites hours of YouTube loitering.
Switching on the news in 2017 is like watching an absurd mockumentary – like a 21st century remake of Bob Roberts, the 1992 satire directed by and starring Tim Robbins, which follows a right-wing businessman running for United States Senate who promises to clean up America with his return to ‘wholesome’ family values.
Scott’s LA is a polluted, dark, dingy, weather-beaten China Town dominated by soaring sky scrapers and moving billboards featuring flashing neon dragons and Chinese symbols. The atmosphere is so dark and polluted, even the umbrellas are equipped with neon lights. The 1980s was arguably the first era to recognise environmental concerns on a global scale, but has all that much changed since Blade Runner’s initial release?