fresh crumbly cheese called
mysíthra, or graviera (the Cretan
Gruyère), small pieces of grilled
octopus, minute kephtédés (little
rissoles made of crushed haricot
beans and fried in oil), quarters of
fresh raw turnip (this sounds
doubtful but is in fact delicious for
there is no vegetable more
vegetable-tasting than these little
turnips freshly dug up from the
garden), slices of fresh cucumber
cooled in ice water; all this
accompanied by limes or lemons
and a mound of bread. There are
also many kinds of smoked or
cured fish – lakerda (a kind of
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