Following a Food Writer on Crete

While my main agenda is finding some new takes on jam I am following my food writer friend around to eat great food . The first problem is the amount of food offered in the presence of such a person. For instance, yesterday we were treated to 12 dishes - we staggered away. The second is this happens every day! All this on an island that still appears to be driven by their past entangeled with gods! Zeus, for instance, was born in a cave here - and because his father had eaten his previous offspring because some other god had threatened that a son would surpass him in every way possible. But back to jam. Tomorrow

"Welcome to Crete" Dinner

I discovered last night the error of following the travel trails of a food writer - the food! Last night's welcome to Crete dinner lavished upon us will definitely expand me to dangerous levels - hoping the raki that I drank first, the local white that came next, the red after than and the ouzo after that disolved the incredible food. Oh but the flavors! the Greek salad that in Greece has not lettuce just the best richest tomatoes, crispy chunky cucumbers tiny anchovies, creamy feta and hard little rusks (barley croutons)with just the best drops of olive oil but followed by roasted fish, tiny racks of lamb after that. The rest is a blur. Following Nancy today - but first breakfast.

I am learning Greek!

I am on the isalnd of Crete - day one. Kalymera means good morning so I am pretty sure I will get this language! The alphabet may take a few extra days.

I am on a search for all things edible with the formidable food writer Nancy Harmon Jenkins - I am sleuthing - shadowing her -looking for Greek jams to add to my repertoire for Bonnie's Jams. Maybe just lying in the sun will inspire. Will try that now.