The Epicurean Visits the Acropolis in Greece

Greece

We didn’t get to sample much of Athens local cuisine as it poured most of the day we were there. Actually, it didn’t start raining until we were on the Acropolis marveling at the Parthenon. The thunder, lightning, and torrential down pour, I’m sure, was Zeus telling us to get the hell off his sacred hill.

However, on the Greek island of Rhodes there were many small restaurants with menus that we would expect to see back in the states. Gyros, souvlaki and dolmedes were part of the standard fare as was the Greek salad which was probably a tourist thing. However, we did notice that vegetarian cuisine was getting to be more prominent the farther east we went.

The Rhodes produces olive oil and we brought back a bottle for Chef D to compare to several others we purchased in Italy. Maybe he will give us his opinion on  Beyond the Kitchen in the near future.