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1. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Jim Karabatsos

   The Mediterranean diet isn't a diet - it's a philosophy (opens the original)

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   Last year, Maria and I were driving on the Ionian island of Lefkada. Lefkada is unusual among the Greek islands in that it is connected to the mainland by a causeway, which means you can reach it by car rather than by ferry. This suits us well. I had entered the island name into the GPS, which promptly decided I wanted to visit its geographic centre – most of the way up a mountain, along a road that became steadily narrower and steeper and more committed to the position that turning back was no

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2. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · Jim Karabatsos

   Language and identity: What you lose when you lose a language (opens the original)

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   In 2010, the year my father died, I attended ten funerals. Not my father’s – that came later. These were the funerals of people whose relationship to me had no clean English name. Not close family. Not friends in the sense my colleagues would recognise. Something denser and older than either: a web of connection with obligations that were real and binding and entirely impossible to explain to anyone who hadn’t grown up inside them. I would tell my employer I needed to take a day’s leave. For wha

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3. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Jim Karabatsos

   Growing up between two worlds: On Melbourne, Greece, and the space between (opens the original)

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   I was five years old, sitting in the shelter shed at school during lunch on a cold and rainy day, when my mother appeared. She had walked from home carrying a pot of avgolemono – chicken soup thickened with egg and sharp with lemon – because her son was cold, and that was what you did when your son was cold. She fed me. I didn’t think anything of it at the time. The teasing that followed lasted for months. My classmates had clearly never seen anything like it: a mother at school during lunchtime

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