The Price of rice doubled recently so I bought a big bag - then a Freeze Dried Food Company emailed me.I wondered about buying in a year's supply of Emergency Rations until I began to ponder on the situation when this food would be finally all eaten!
For a long time I have considered living on a boat and fishing - that is, until this last month when I returned from two weeks sailing around the islands of the Ionian Sea, just offshore of the Greek Mainland!
We lived on board a sleek Beneteau 361,
drifting each evening into an inviting Taverna. There were wonderful
menus of all the meats - but the fish might well have just been exotic jewelry. Their prices were more astronomic than gastronomic!
Wandering around the small fishing harbours, my suspicions were aroused by the "fishy smell".
Everywhere, fishing boats lay loaded with nets - bone dry nets! and everywhere a total absence of any fishy smell.
They had done their job of emptying the Mediterranean of all the edible fish so their brightly painted, quaint craft were now only for Disneyesque display.
Therefore, the price of a fish supper included its airfare - presumably?
The islands had many goats living off the scrub but neither goat nor rabbit or black bread were on any menu.
To the Faraway islands of the Greek archipelago
an armada of rich, fat, pale, blue eyed strangers has landed for whom
subsistence food is unknown and the produce of the wood fired oven is
restricted to Pizza, an Italian import, even rejected by Sophia Loren, who when she hit the big time, wanted fillet steak!
