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Written by Hillary Paipeti
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Friday, 18 September 2009 |
In response to popular demand, the publisher of The Corfiot Magazine has just launched 'The Complete Book of Corfu Walks', a follow up to the successful and much acclaimed 'Corfu Book of Walks' (1987) and 'Second Book of Corfu Walks' (1995, 1999).
Ten years down the line, author and Corfiot editor Hilary Whitton Paipeti has catalogued many new walks, and made changes and improvements to old favourites from the books. Already, the publication contains 60 walks, and a total of over 100 is planned within the next two years. |
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Good Food
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Written by Hillary Paipeti
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
Pastitsada, Sofrito and Bourdetto - the 'trinity' of Corfiot cuisine,
are on the restaurant menu wherever local cooking is featured.
Grilled meat, especially lamb chops, are a common choice for an
evening meal out at the taverna or grill room. But, except on Sundays
and on special occasions, you won't find many Corfiots eating these
dishes on a day-to-day basis. What DO the locals eat at home? Why
don't we find real home cooking in the tavernas? Where can we try
these dishes? These are all questions I am asked both by newcomers
and by long-time foreign residents who do not have a Greek family.
Until prosperity reached the villages 20 years or so ago, local
families ate very simply. Unless out working on the land or
elsewhere, families took their main meal at midday. It would comprise
a single main dish, in winter perhaps a thick vegetable soup, or some
pasta plain or with a strong tomato sauce, or maybe pulses in some
form or another. A salad of cabbage, with carrot added sometimes, and
cheese or some inexpensive fish fried or grilled would complete the
meal. In summer, vegetables picked from the garden and boiled or made
into a stew formed the backbone of the diet, with sardines or
anchovies the fish of choice. In the evening, the meals were even
simpler, and might just consist of bread, cheese and olives, with
'renga' (kipper) a special treat.
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History
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Written by Sarah Button
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
I confess to being a little bit of a culture vulture and enjoy
museums and art galleries but when Hilary suggested we ‘Do’ Corfu
Town’s museums in a day I thought we might be selling this wonderful
town short. So how did it go?
Parking on the promenade near the Archaeological Museum is free, and
before 9 am there was plenty of space.
The museum, built in the 60s to house some of Corfu’s most ancient
relics, looks rather incongruous set amongst older Venetian
buildings, but I was stunned by a collection that showed a side of
pre-classical Greek archaeology I wouldn’t have believed existed.
This museum contains none of those giant-size marble gods typical of
classical sites like Olympia. Exhibits are much more at the human
level - you could imagine a real woman offering her votive statue of
Artemis to the goddess. Even the largest of the free-standing statues
- the Lion of Menecrates - is only life-size. Above all, the
exhibits, mostly dating from the 5th and 6th ceturies BC, are
immensely OLD. |
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