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ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
Packed bars with carousing revelers spilling onto clogged streets. Takeaway booze swigged by drunken tourists and students. Earsplitting volumes in once quiet residential neighborhoods long after midnight.
Demand remains high in the luxury housing market, both from foreign investors and from Greeks.
Following an ongoing investigation since Thursday night, police found an infant’s body inside a plastic bag in a large trash container at the local landfill in the Attica region of Vravrona. The discovery comes in a probe into a couple allegedly disposing of the infant in a trash can.
A key suspect in the fatal injury of a police officer during fan riots in Athens last December surrendered himself to authorities on Friday.
A win for the ruling conservatives in the upcoming European Parliament elections in June is crucial for ensuring political stability in the country, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday.
Titan is getting ready to list its US subsidiary, Titan America, on the US stock exchange.
It’s been a constant theme of past decades but the situation has dramatically deteriorated during the last 10 years as the economic crisis took its toll.
The late Epiphanios of Mylopotamos, a monk and a chef who publicized the gastronomy and viticulture of Mount Athos to the wider world, made a cracking red snapper soup, with lots of herbs, but also cumin, which is unusual for fish. The small amount of cumin doesn’t define the dish, but it does make it spicier.
These five iconic eateries have resisted the passage of time and firmly established themselves in Athens and Thessaloniki’s culinary scenes.
For all of us Gastronomos travelers, no mission is complete without a stop for something sweet at a local confectionery.
Smyrna cookies, along with tsoureki and red eggs, are now an essential component of many households’ culinary traditions. We refer to them as Smyrna cookies because they originated in Asia Minor.
