Podcast Episode 98: Travel Writing in Greece

Christopher Bakken
By Christopher Bakken
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In this episode of the Find Dining podcast, Christopher Bakken, author of Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table and the English Department Chair at Allegheny College talks about culinary travel in Greece. We discuss travel writing, harvesting olives, and hunting for octopus.

Christopher Bakken
Christopher Bakken
  • Come hear Christopher speak at the 2014 Food and Travel Expo

  • Take a writing workshop with Greece as your backdrop

  • Need some reading material for your next flight?

  • Enjoy the classic works of M.L.K. Fischer, such as The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition

  • Get in to the kitchen with Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.) or Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

  • Take a journey with Patrick Leigh Fermor beginning with A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (New York Review Books Classics)

  • Island hop using ferries and find a room for rent at a local home or small inn

  • Agritourism is an growing industry in Greece

  • When in Greece, enjoy a mid-day mesimeriano feast

1. Food for Thought

  • Q : On which Greek Island did Vin Santo originate?
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  • A: Thera (Santorini)

2. Out of the Frying Pan Picks

  • Restaurant with a great view: Balcony of Pension Archodissa
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  • Favorite Greek Wine: Assyrtico and Xinomavro

  • Advice on Greek honey: try thyme honey

  • Favorite market: "Two Doors", a hidden gem one block down from the Great Athens market

  • Favorite beach: Orkos beach in Naxos

  • Dish to compare restaurants by: Greek salad

  • Restaurant customs that may surprise an American tourist: It'll take a while to get the check because they don't want you to leave

  • Favorite dessert: watermelon and feta with a glass of tsipouro or ouzo

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