I think Alameda might be my new favorite hangout. If you are a wine, food, beer or other such snob, you know what I mean. You others, listen. Might learn something.
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Story excerpted from a report by by Joseph Shapiro for National Public Radio
When Hitler's armies and Axis powers occupied Greece during World War II, they pretty much stripped Greece of its food, which was sent to German soldiers on battle fronts across Europe.
By the end of the war, at least a quarter of a million Greek men, women and children had died from starvation.
Just three years after the war, American scientists arrived on the Greek island of Crete to help rebuild. The wartime survivors still scraped by on the tiniest portions of food, so the scientists were amazed by what they saw.
Scientists found the people of Crete in excellent health even after the war, explained Dr. Anthony Kafatos of the University of Crete's School of Medicine. He said that after the war, there was no malnutrition.
"The families here in Crete, they produced everything they wanted at home," Kafatos said. "And they had no supermarkets, no electricity, no refrigerator. So they had only seasonal foods."
But now, that kind of homegrown eating is vanishing.
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