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Travel and Food Category—Silver Winner: Mama Rose’s Coconut Bread

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

by Celeste Brash
Mama Rose impaled the coconut onto the wooden spike making a tear in the husk. Self-rolled cigarette hanging out the corner of her mouth, she continued with ease, lifting, turning and thrusting the coconut on the spike till the husk fell away. Inside was a newborn, white nut with brown hairs. Picking up [...]

Travel and Food Category—Gold Winner: The Village Kazani

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

by Paul B. Hertneky
“The secret of Crete is deep. He who sets foot on the island feels a strange strength penetrating through his veins and his soul widens.” Nikos Kazantzakis
Go ahead and think of Greek islands as sun-baked bliss in blue and white. I had fallen into the habit of hopping to Athens and hightailing [...]

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