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Some excerpts to whet your appetite:
Here's a vision:a grandmother and young grand-daughter sitting on a shady porch in wooden rockers, with a pile of beans between them, catching the shelled beans in the laps of their dresses. It's a sweet picture, but not one that I can imagine actually happening to me or anyone I know. I'd like to tell you that I sit out on the deck in the sun with a friend, shelling beans and drinking wine. What really ends up happening is that I sit in front of the TV, watching a movie and shelling beans, which works out pretty well, and makes me feel more organized and less like a couch potato.
Freddy and Ellen Menge live a life apart from the economic roller coaster that everyone else is riding. They live in La Selva Beach, a small, mostly wealthy, beach town halfway between Santa Cruz and Watsonville. On a regular street in a regular neighborhood, their house stands out. It is the only one with a pile of horse manure spilling out of the yard.
--Urban Homesteaders: Freddy and Ellen Menge
Whether your festival is indoors or out, the best part about this event is eating and watching at the same time. You can make it easy and have a bowl of olives, feta with olive oil poured over the top, and warm pita bread. If you want to cook, that makes it even better. In winter, if it’s cold and wet outside, you can have spanikopita and dolmas and broil souvlaki in the oven. In summer, when tomatoes and cucumbers are in season, you can make a big Greek salad. Red wine is my drink of choice (as usual), but ouzo is appropriate, or if you want to be really authentic get some retsina (if you like drinking turpentine).
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