Dimitris and Damocles live in the same block of flats. They share a love of cooking, and, it soon transpires, a lover - Nana. What follows is the story of their competition to win Nana's heart through her appetite. As the plates pile up, and the recipes grow ever more mouth watering, a bizarre and comic duel develops, fought with sea-urchin salads, stuffed vine leaves and delicacies from all corners of the Aegean to win the consummate femme fatale or to end up with the sting in the tail...
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One woman, two suitors and seventeen delicious dishes: in Athens seduction starts in the kitchen... Dimitris and Damocles live in the same block of flats, on the same floor. They share a love of cooking, and, it soon transpires, a lover -- Nana. What follows is the story of their competition to win Nana's heart through her stomach -- each performing ever more succulent culinary feats in an effort to defeat his rival. As the dishes pile up, and the recipes -- listed in their entirety at the end of every chapter -- grow more and more mouth-watering, it becomes a bizarre and comic duel, fought with sea-urchin salads, stuffed vine leaves and delicacies from all corners of the Aegean, to win the consummate femme fatal.
Andreas Staikos, an Athenian, was born in 1944. He has written and directed several works for theatre and has also translated into Greek works by Marivaux, Moliere and other French classics from the eighteenth centuries. Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife teaches English language and literature in Athens and works as a translator.
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