A peculiar localization has transformed the usual pita-souvlaki (skewer) in the picturesque town of Laconia, where some enjoy it on the go and others at a table.

How, what and where people eat has to do with how they live, what their lives are like and where they live: it has to do with their culture, land and history. Three elements that Greece has in abundance…

A remote chapel that comes alive but once a year on the festival of its Saint, a monastery which breaks its otherworldly silence to welcome the worldly hustle and bustle in celebration, the main church of a small village that celebrates its protector...Wherever anyone has lived the experience of an island festival, they know that in its large pots, a very special chapter of Greek traditional cuisine is being written...

The Aegean Sea: just white churches, dry walls, sky and sea. Odysseus Elytis, the great Greek poet, wrote: “My God, what blue you spent so that we can’t see you…”. Dry summers, made of stone, sun and salt. Winters with winds and stormy seas. Cyclades.