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    • Food
      • Non English ouzo pages
        • Allons boire un petit ouzo……
          • Ouzo, de alcoholische anijsdrank uit Griekenland
        • El Ouzo es un licor de origen griego
        • Ouzo – grecka wódka!
        • Ouzo ist eine griechische Spirituose mit Anis – ouzo gläser!
        • Ouzo je typický řecký alkoholický nápoj vynikající anýzové chuti.
        • Ouzo on kirkas aniksenmakuinen kreikkalainen viina
        • ouzo-házak
        • 喝茴香烈酒是一种艺术。 或者也是一种生活方式。
      • Ouzo brands
      • Ouzo opium
      • What is ouzo
        • Is ouzo Greek? Ouzo Wikipedia facts
    • Great Greeks: the play
      • Why are you doing this?
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    • ygeia
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      • Landscape
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      • Greek Literature in English – FICTION
      • Greek literature in English- Poetry
      • Letters, Memoirs, Travelogs, Mountaineering, Exploration
      • Overal History and Political Science
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      • Ethnology of minorities
      • Traditional mountain life
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Month: April 2011

Why a modern Greek should feel like Achilles at sea

alexanderchalkidisApril 28, 2011

While everyone gets used to what most of us saw (and wrote) all along and the Greek debt sooner or later gets restructured, the road ahead is pretty clear: we…

Scanning opportunities and inroads to social networking

alexanderchalkidisApril 21, 2011

Old photos fade away.   Literally!   No matter what paper they are printed on, even in good storage conditions.   So as I started to scan a few from my vast –…

Master Chef’s “insanely delicious” ouzo sauce

alexanderchalkidisApril 18, 2011

“Insanely delicious scallops&shrimp on eggy noodles w creamy ouzo sauce @my FAVE Manhatt greek resto #Pylos. Their tarama DE-stroys all others.”  If you are not from the U.S. you may not know Kelly…

Don’t get drunk: drink real A grade Greek ouzo

alexanderchalkidisApril 16, 2011

Following Twitter references to ouzo and #ouzo there is a very specific group of people with old bad memories of ugly hangovers associated to ouzo drinking.   This is commonly the…

How GrecoGerman family businesses will rule the world

alexanderchalkidisApril 15, 2011

It is fashionable (and easy) to target family run businesses as the source of a country’s problems.  Whether it is the Economist’s view of a region or the complaints of…

Ich trink Ouzo, was trinkst du so? – I drink ouzo, what do you drink?

alexanderchalkidisApril 14, 2011

It has been called “The book on the crisis” and “A love letter to Greece”.   The journalist Stella Bettermann has written a real “feel good” book.   Even the longer…

Is the ouzo industry too small to survive?

alexanderchalkidisApril 13, 2011

One of the problems facing ouzo is that it is generally produced by companies too small to help properly promote it.  It is indicative that at the recent ProWein international…

A scientific exploration of why ouzo gets mirky with water

alexanderchalkidisApril 8, 2011

Here is the short version as I understand it: put the water first and then the ice.  Depending on how much alcohol the ouzo has it will react differently to…

Therapeutic qualities of aniseed: drink and then bathe in it!

alexanderchalkidisApril 7, 2011

It isn’t just the aroma of aniseed that gives ouzo that distinctive flavor. “This spice possesses gas-relieving property. It is an excellent medicine for expelling wind from the stomach. It…

Ouzo dimino – what a bad name for a drink!

alexanderchalkidisApril 6, 2011

“Dimino” in greek means “every two months”.  Seems a rather bad name for ouzo, but here is a useful text about the Production Methods:   (Pardon the Google translation slip…

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