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![]() ![]() Aglaia's latest book The Foods of the Greek Islands, published by Houghton Mifflin, was chosen as the first of the year's best cookbooks by the New York Times. |
Aglaia Kremezi Aglaia was born in Athens and currently lives
permanently on Kea. She is a journalist, writer, photographer and
food columnist for the Sunday Athens paper Kyriakatiki
Eleftherotypia and the Greek edition of Votre Beaute
magazine. She is also a contributing author for the Los
Angeles Times, Gourmet Magazine, BBC Good Food
Magazine, Bonne Appetit, Food and Wine,
Food Arts and other publications. |
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Costas Moraitis Four summers ago, Costas, with his wife Aglaia and their two dogs, Popie and Melech, loaded their small SUV and left their Athens apartment with an armchair tied on the car's roof. They set on their vacation to the newly constructed summerhouse on the island of Kea. They never returned to the city. After his degree from the University of Athens, Costas got an MA in English from St. Michael's College in Vermont, and continued with Biblical Studies at Yale. He returned to Greece to pursue an academic career, and taught English for several years. In 1997 he published his first book translating from Coptic into Modern Greek The Gospel According to Philip . While he started his second book, a translation of the New Testament with historical annotations, Kea came up. On the island, while slowly working on his book and freelancing for travel magazines, he discovered that apart from papyri and ancient texts in obscure languages, there are shovels and axes, trees and bushes, wild orchids, aromatic plants and peace of mind. Digging and planting, constructing dry-stone walls and some of the family's furniture, he stretched and stretched this vacation as long as he could, until it stopped being a vacation and turned into a way of life. His wife consented, and the dogs were delighted… |
![]() Soultana, his wooden traditional fishing-boat, a rare example of its kind, was built by the last remaining Greek boat builder. |
Kostis Maroulis After living and studying in the United States, France and
England, Kostis recently returned to live in Kea, having acquired
his grandfather's ancestral home and farmland. Kostis holds
university degrees from Middlebury College in Vermont, the
University of Paris and King's College London. As part of his
graduate degree in Archaeology he has taken part in archaeological
excavations in Greece and Russia . His other interests include hiking trails, literature, botany, gardening and making his own wine from the vines of his vineyard. |
Kea Artisanal's USA connection,
Peggy currently lives in NY. |
Peggy Sotirhos Kea Artisanal's USA connection, Peggy currently lives in NY and has over ten years' professional experience in planning, developing, implementing, and managing various international initiatives, special events, educational programs, and community outreach projects in higher education and non-profit organizations in New York and abroad. She has lived and worked in London, England, and Athens, Greece and traveled on work-related projects extensively throughout Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Africa and Mexico. She holds a BA in American Studies and Classics from Barnard College, Columbia University and a Master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in education. She is currently Associate Director of Planning, Curriculum and Program Development at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Special Programs Office, where she works on developing international exchanges and programs in the performing, cinematic, and media arts. Her research interests focus on international education, multicultural and transnational curriculum development, peace education, and community development programs. On a personal level, Peggy is interested in travel, travel writing, cultural studies, fine arts, and the culinary arts. |