Staffan Graner

Feb 16, 2024 | eurozine.com | Fabien Perrier |Oana Filip |Staffan Graner |Markus Wild

Two billion euros! This may be the cost of the series of climatic disasters that hit the country between mid-July and mid-September, as estimated by Moschos Korasidis, managing director of the National Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Greece. Giorgos Stratakos, secretary general of the Greek ministry of agriculture, agrees: ‘It’s a global problem’. The fires first ravaged the area around Alexandroupoli, the main town in the agricultural region of Evros in the northeast of the country.

Jan 17, 2024 | eurozine.com | Staffan Graner

Food comes first in the order of humanity’s needs. Then come not only morals (Brecht), but also all the subtleties of advanced gastronomy. From this simple perspective, food is fuel: the fats, proteins and carbohydrates loaded with chemical energy that our metabolism converts into heat and movement, or into new energy sources in the body’s cells. But larks don’t land in our mouths ready-cooked, as the author of the 14th-century satirical poem The Land of Cockaygne imagined it.