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Award-winning author DIANE KOCHILAS divides her time between New York, Athens, and her
family's ancestral island, Ikaria, where she and her husband, Vasilis Stenos, run the Glorious
Greek Kitchen cooking school. She has written 18 books on Greek cuisine. Her latest book, The
Country Cooking of Greece, was hailed by the Virtual Gourmet as her masterpiece and the Best
Cookbook of 2012. She lives in Athens and New York City. Read more Excerpt. © Reprinted by
permission. All rights reserved. IntroductionIkaria Feeds the SoulI first touched foot on the island
in 1972 as a 12-year-old New York City kid inured tosticky urban summers, insipid American food,
and strict curfews. My Greek was nonexistent, but somehow it didnâ€t matter. I felt at home, as
though Ikaria was in my bones. It was, I guess. I grew up with it all around, the child of Ikarian
immigrants. My father left his village, Raches, in 1937 and never was able to make it back, settling
instead, right after the war, in New York City. Despite our physical distance from it, Ikaria was
woven into the texture of our lives. We lived in an Ikarian enclave in Jackson Heights, Queens,
and all my parents†friends were from the island; by default and design, we kids were also
friends. Now, so are our own children. Bonds among islanders from Ikaria cross oceans and
generations. We never thought these ties and our roots to the island to be anything but the norm,
even in a society as mobile as America.Historically, Ikaria has always been isolated and poor, a
speck of rock 99 miles long in the middle and roughest part of the Aegean, where political
undesirables were exiled from the Byzantine era to the 1960s. But in remoteness and want,
islanders learned to be self-reliant, independent of thought, and close-knit, to disdain the pursuit of
material acquisition and live simply and essentially, to pay little heed to the zeitgeist of the times,
indeed, to pay no heed to time at all. Ikaria is known as the island where people do not live by the
clock, where punctuality is not necessarily a virtue, where the time of day is always “late
thirty,― a kind of running joke. Yet, they outlive most clocks, for the island is home to some of the
longest-living people on earth, a demographic and statistical anomaly that has catapulted Ikaria
and its people to unexpected fame in the last few years.Ikaria is one of the Blue Zones,® a term
coined by the Belgian demographer Dr. Michel Poulain, who together with Dr. Gianni Pes of the
University of Sassari in Italy and Dan Buettner, author of the book The Blue Zones, have been
studying the planetâ€s pockets of longevity since 2003, under the aegis of the National
Geographic Foundation and, in the case of Ikaria, the AARP as well as a series of other corporate
funders. Poulain, blue pen in hand, literally drew circles (in blue) on the map one day around

places such as Ikaria, Okinawa, Sardinia, Costa Ric