Greek food and family-style cultural dinners.
I am so pleasantly content after every meal I eat here in Greece! Greek salad. Tzatziki. Fried cheese. Some dessert I didn't catch the name of that is basically an apple soaked in wine. Complimentary ouzo and limoncello everywhere I go (pretty sure it's because of two simple reasons: I'm an American and I'm a woman). Greek yogurt with honey drizzled over it. Wine leaves.....well, I could take 'em or leave 'em....I don't think I've had really spectacular ones yet and so I haven't been impressed.
What I love even more than the food is how the Greeks eat. When I first arrived here, I was told to just go sit at a cafe and try to stay there as long as other Greek people do.
I learned quickly that they sit around enjoying one another's company for approximately 2 hours or more each time. They could be done eating and possibly done drinking but they'll still be sitting there. Waiters don't tell them they need to leave. Water's still get refilled. Another round of ouzo is still delivered. As a person who loves just being around people, I love the emphasis on relationships around food here. It is so delightful to sit under a pergola roof, sipping wine, and still spreading spicy cheese or olive oil on bread an hour after we have finished most of our food.
It's going to be very difficult to go back to the states and each out.
I am so pleasantly content after every meal I eat here in Greece! Greek salad. Tzatziki. Fried cheese. Some dessert I didn't catch the name of that is basically an apple soaked in wine. Complimentary ouzo and limoncello everywhere I go (pretty sure it's because of two simple reasons: I'm an American and I'm a woman). Greek yogurt with honey drizzled over it. Wine leaves.....well, I could take 'em or leave 'em....I don't think I've had really spectacular ones yet and so I haven't been impressed.
What I love even more than the food is how the Greeks eat. When I first arrived here, I was told to just go sit at a cafe and try to stay there as long as other Greek people do.
I learned quickly that they sit around enjoying one another's company for approximately 2 hours or more each time. They could be done eating and possibly done drinking but they'll still be sitting there. Waiters don't tell them they need to leave. Water's still get refilled. Another round of ouzo is still delivered. As a person who loves just being around people, I love the emphasis on relationships around food here. It is so delightful to sit under a pergola roof, sipping wine, and still spreading spicy cheese or olive oil on bread an hour after we have finished most of our food.
It's going to be very difficult to go back to the states and each out.
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