Welcome to Litsy!

A perfect book to read in anticipation of a trip to Greece. This memoir is set on the island of Patmos, where one man opened a restaurant in partnership with a local Greek. He learned so much about the culture, including their hospitality and clear lines between locals and foreigners. His naïveté and openness is blatantly American, but so is his enthusiasm for cooking and the island. I can‘t wait to visit the shores he describes.

I will admit to being a little disappointed on this so far. I guess I just expected more than a running dialogue that vacillates between the author‘s inflated view self-serving of himself, and an inner dialogue that speaks of warnings of impending heartbreak and doom but the headstrong determination to do it anyway.