Our eyes meet momentarily as Simos pauses for a rest by the cast-iron stove. He seems content, but then the sun shines through the citrus trees and dapples his velvety grey face. He lets out a ...

CHIOS, Greece — Four years ago, Evangelos Xydas decided to leave his job at a hotel to open a small specialty food company on an orchard on the Greek island of Chios. He knew he was taking something ...

Chios is so unique, so genuinely odd, that at times you don't feel like you are in Greece at all. Centuries as an economic and cultural power house in the north Aegean, plus a string of invaders and ...