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Feta that’ll not Make you Feta’r

You all know the expression in English ‘as different as chalk and cheese’ – I’d reckon it must have been dreamed up to describe Feta cheese. Most Feta on sale is one-dimensional, chalky, overly saline and utterly pointless. The original barrel-aged Feta, … Continue reading

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“Even Horse won’t Eat” – Water Melons are here

The markets and Mediterranean shops are filling up with the season’s first shipments of water melons. Deliciously special when they are good.  Atrociously ‘so what’ when they are not.  So how to choose a good one? Two stories in one here. I … Continue reading

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