The quince is like a deceitful beauty. It has a voluptuous shape, a heavenly aroma, an attractive appearance. But once you bite into it, it shocks you with its hard, tart nature. The quince needs sugar or honey to be edible, and it is probably the only fruit that can't be eaten raw.
Read more...I was first introduced to the regal pomegranate by a Greek folklorist, several years ago. She was giving a talk on the symbolism of food, and it became obvious that of all the fruits in the Mediterranean garden, the pomegranate, with its turret like calyx, its rough, papery skin and honeycomb of blood-colored beads within, is one of the most ancient and mythical. From earliest times, the pomegranate has been the fruit of fertility, of death and rebirth, of hope.
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Zagori is an area of great natural beauty and unique architecture in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus in Northwestern Greece. The area is of about 1.000 square kilometers and contains 46 villages. Zagoria villages is called by Greeks “Zagorochoria” meaning the villages behind the mountain.
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In 1989, Professor of Byzantine Studies, Helen Ahrweiler is appointed Chairman of the Cultural Centre Pompidou in Paris