Epimenides the Cretan would surely have approved, or disapproved or, most likely, something in between.
Cretan explores the theme through his busts, one of which is covered in beautifully crafted ceramic roses.
Since hearing Psilakis' presentation, I've become a big fan of the Cretan "rusk, " which is like zwieback but 100 times as hard.
The Holy Monastery of St Nicholas houses a single-nave church with a small dome, decorated by the 16th-century Cretan painter, Theophanes the Monk.
These snacks were followed by a multi-course, multi-hour, sit-down dinner of many typical dishes of the Cretan diet and some pretty good Cretan wine.
The Cretan diet includes about three times more bread than the average American eats, but it is all made from whole grains, loaded with healthful fiber.
Psilakis' presentation was accompanied by typical Cretan hors d'oeuvres: spreads made of eggplant and fish roe, lots of raw vegetables and olives, and tiny, lightly fried cheese turnovers called kallitsounias.
Nikos Psilakis, a founding member of the Greek Academy of Taste, wants to educate the world outside Crete, as well as younger generations on the island, about the Cretan diet.
It's also a place where salads are a large part of the diet: There is a saying that goes, if you have a field, don't let a cow or a Cretan in.
Rusks are eaten saturated with olive oil and sprinkled with oregano, slathered with eggplant dip or olive paste, or topped with chopped tomatoes, soft cheese and oregano a typical Cretan tavern food called dakos.
Psilakis cites studies showing that the people of Crete have the lowest death rate from heart disease and cancer in the world, and he credits the lifestyle and traditional diet that of the poor Cretan farmer.
On the road from the Cretan port of Heraklion to the south coast, there is a Chinese shop in almost every settlement even, for example, in Agia Varvara, whose other features are one paved intersection, a bread shop and a garage.
He exposes in print what clubby archaeologists from Oxford and Cambridge have long known but kept to themselves: that Evans was a mediocre field archaeologist, who relied on his skilled, hard-drinking assistant, Duncan Mackenzie, to manage the Cretan workmen and build a chronology for the different phases of occupation and destruction at Knossos.
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