Month: April 2011
Why a modern Greek should feel like Achilles at sea
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
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
“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
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
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?
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?
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
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!
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!
“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…