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...ingredients from across its vast territories: Circassian chicken and Arabic hummus, to name two. For Ottoman flavor, head for Asitane, www.asitanerestaurant.com, in the Old City, which re-creates dishes served at a feast given by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1539, based on archival research. The sumptuous menu reflects Greek, Persian, Arab and even North African influences. The Sultan, it turns out, was an early fan of fusion...
...about a Greek cruise? That's the appealing idea behind easyCruise, the latest brainchild of European serial entrepreneur Stelios Hadji-Ioannou...
That's a small concern, however, since easyCruise passengers don't stay aboard much anyway. Aimed at youth travelers interested in island hopping and sampling Greek nightlife, the ship offers a floating party experience, taking 170 passengers to popular holiday destinations they might not be able to visit otherwise. Putting into port at Aegean islands like Mykonos and Paros--or undiscovered isles like Folegandros--travelers have an afternoon of fun ashore and then party the night away before setting sail for the next destination. What's the catch? Passengers must book at least two nights on any predetermined route...
With experts predicting a 20% increase in Greek cruises this year, Hadji-Ioannou could not have picked a better moment. Easy sailing, it seems, for Mr. Easy...
...irons. But Crist says his hard line on criminals is simply part of what also drove him to renew ex-convicts' voter rights. Instead of ideology, "fundamental fairness was always spoken about in our home," says Crist, 50, sitting in shirtsleeves in his office, beneath a painting of his Greek immigrant grandfather when he was a shoe-shine boy. He speaks daily on the phone with his father Charles, who in the 1960s was the only white physician in Crist's hometown of St. Petersburg to volunteer to help sports teams at segregated, all-black high schools--and who advised...