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Greek identity with a difference, from the inside out and the outside in (formerly Organically Cooked - Linking Greek food with Greek identity: you eat what you are, or who you want to be)

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Showing posts with label POVERTY. Show all posts

Showing posts with label POVERTY. Show all posts

Monday, 4 April 2016

The Social Kitchen of Hania (Κοινωνική Κουζίνα Χανίων)

This post also appears in Greek (scroll down), as translated for the local and Greek press, and published in websites (eg zarpanews ). P...

Monday, 6 October 2014

Exiting the euro

There's no fear of exiting from the euro, especially when you don't have any. This is a translation of a conversation (as it appear...

Sunday, 22 December 2013

Newly impoverished (Πρόσφατα εξαθλιωμένος)

The bell at the village church was tolling in mourning mode. This is the first sign to most of us that someone in the area has died. The fu...

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Itinerant (Επαίτης)

Last Saturday morning, I came across this array of people in the town. Once you move past the Agora in the town centre (where all dista...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Selling expired food (Ληγμένα)

I could be sleeping at this hour, but Persephone is still around - there's a really noisy party going on at our neighbour's house,...

Saturday, 3 August 2013

Semi-rural very poor

Most of my extended Greek family in Crete is, by western standards, 'rural poor', which often means that they live in a rudimentary...

Sunday, 28 April 2013

Living below the line

You may have heard about Jack Munroe 's story (from the UK) of how she found herself unemployed with a two year old son, with no food ...

Friday, 19 April 2013

From Athens to Papakura by Nikos Petousis

There was a documentary recently broadcast on Greek TV, which presented a snapshot of the Greeks currently residing in NZ. I hesitate to sa...

Saturday, 16 March 2013

Greek spending habits (Αγοραστικές συνήθειες)

It was World Consumer Rights Day yesterday, with the local press publishing a report about how Greek people's shopping habits have ch...

Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Soup kitchen (Συσσίτιο)

Soup kitchens: that's a scary phrase - it means poverty, misery, κακομοιριά . Unless we need them, we don't know anything about the...

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