Drink Eat Love

Good Eats: Dinner at Farina

My friend Thomas and I are always asking each other, "Have you eaten anywhere good?" and we generally have but each experience is never note-worthy or singular. The foods are fresh, clean, well prepared but rarely are they riveting or classic. We both dine often (Thomas is out almost 4 nights a week!) and have had many good meals but we are always looking for that definitive meal. It is not about money, famous chefs, or ratings from critics. It is about the food, the flavor and the experience. Well...a new place has been found.

It’s Not All Retsina

To most most Americans Greek wine is relegated into two categories: wines that are drunk while on vacation in Greece or “Ewh, Greece makes Retsina.” Well both can be true but what one drinks while in Greece and Retsina just skim the surface of what wine is in Greece. Though wine was not first made in Greece it can be said that Greece is the home to wine culture. Records show that wine production and consumption was in full swing by the 7^th century B.C. and a fixture in all of Greece. Some archeological finds suggest that wine was a staple of the Minoan diet and other ancient civilizations as early as 3^rd millennium B.C. So to say that Retsina is the “alpha – omega” of Greek wine would be a sad misnomer.