Greece - Kalo Taxidi! Notes from Greece and the Greek Islands.
Showing posts with label cheese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheese. Show all posts
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Monday, 26 March 2012
Arsenic Cheese.............???!
I was looking around a shop in Greece, an old-fashioned shop selling herbs, oils, and wines as well as local cheeses. A notice on the outside wall caught my eye: "Arseniko cheese". Arsenic? Poisonous cheese? I asked about the cheese and was told "male cheese". Male cheese? Another conundrum!
The word arsenic is from the Greek arsenikon, meaning yellow orpiment, the mineral arsenic trisulphide. Orpiment is from the Latin auripigmentum (aurum, gold and pigmentum, pigment). Pigment is from the same root as paint.
But there is another Greek word arsenikos, meaning masculine or strong. The cheese I had seen advertised was strongly flavoured mature cheese, not poisonous at all!
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Monday, 19 March 2012
Nigel McGilchrist - Greek Islands
A series of books on the architecture and archaelology of the Greek islands. I took the violumes containing Naxos and Amorgos on my last holiday to Greece. I've been visiting Naxos and Amorgos for over 25 years and still managed to find things in the books that I did not know. So the books must be even more useful for travellers who know the islands less well.
On one walk it was difficult to work out which church was being described. The book mentioned two churches on the route - I found three.
It wasn't a good idea to say that the church key was above the door - no more.
In one of the books I'm sure that I read that a local cheese was capable of autolocomotion - I looked again and could not find the comment. The "autolocomotive" cheese was a soft cheese. I usually find soft cheeses are relatively mild. It is the hard cheeses that are pungent .............................
On one walk it was difficult to work out which church was being described. The book mentioned two churches on the route - I found three.
It wasn't a good idea to say that the church key was above the door - no more.
In one of the books I'm sure that I read that a local cheese was capable of autolocomotion - I looked again and could not find the comment. The "autolocomotive" cheese was a soft cheese. I usually find soft cheeses are relatively mild. It is the hard cheeses that are pungent .............................
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