Hummus, the chickpea dip or spread usually enjoyed on a traditional flatbread called pita, is claimed as a native or national dish by many countries, most of them in Arab North Africa and the Middle East. It’s a bit like one child claiming to have been born to several mothers. We figure it isn’t, or […]
Santorini is a small island on the southern edge of Greece’s Aegean Sea, small certainly if measured in square miles (less than 25) and arguably if measured by impact on world history. Yet thanks to one iconic wine grape and a dazzling origin story that might actually be true, this purple-black volcanic rock rising from […]
Over millennia, four of the most fascinating cultures this world has ever produced decided to fight it out over the almost-inland sea called the Mediterranean. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans and the Arabs known as Saracens, Moors or Turks argued over everything – religion, science, government and real estate chief among them. But they […]