WILD FIG TREE

If you’ve spent any time in northern Greece, you’ve probably traveled on the Egnatia Motorway. Officially the A2, it traces the route of the ancient Via Egnatia—a road that carried merchants, armies, and pilgrims across the region for centuries, from…

Driving home westbound on the Egnatia freeway from a full day at the beach, near Kavala, I managed to convince my exhausted family to make a small detour. Because a few minutes off the freeway lies a hidden gem of Northern Greece – The Lion of …

If you’ve ever wandered between a Greek taverna and an Italian trattoria, you may have noticed something strange: some of the dishes sound oddly familiar—but are nothing alike. Here are three classic examples of Greek–Italian culinary “false fr…

It wasn’t until a coworker from India mentioned her travel plans that I started thinking of Greece as a “milk nation.”“I want to go to Greece and eat yogurt,” she said.It stopped me in my tracks. I’ve heard all kinds of reasons to visit Greece—histor…

There’s something about bazaars that speaks to a time before supermarkets and shopping malls. A time when going to buy cheese or a pair of shoes might have involved hitching a ride with a neighbor, or taking the bus to the next town over. When “going…

The Cappadocian Greeks were one of several Greek-speaking communities who lived for centuries in what is now central Turkey—part of a broader group known as the Asia Minor Greeks. In essence the Asia Minor Greeks stayed and kept their culture, langua…