Even though this is the third (fourth?) time I’ve been to Eressos, there was still plenty of new food things to find out about. One day we were out walking around in the “campo”–the little farm plots around the village. Here’s the view from the big hill and fort: In one side yard, we happened [...]
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The Greece adventures continued, with some village foraging. Peter bought peaches from a truck, because he could: I bought sour cherries, because I could. We made a mess, and then made compote, to go with our local yogurt for breakfast. Truth be told, the cherries were not from a truck, but from the produce stand. [...]
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Now that it’s officially not summer anymore, and we’re all back to laboring after Labor Day, I finally uploaded my Greece photos. For the food-obsessed, here are the highlights, starting with Athens and getting settled on Mytilene. In Athens, we ate lunch twice at a little taverna near our apartment. Everything was stupendously good. But [...]
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My brother, Casey McFarland, is in Chile right now. He’s a wildlife tracker and the author of Bird Feathers: A Guide to North American Species which is released today. In Chile, he’s supposed to be tracking mountain lions, though it sounds a lot more like he’s taking 20-mile hikes in armpit-deep snow and seeing everything [...]
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