Ikaria is one of Dan Buettner’s Blue Zones, where people tend to live long and healthy lives. It’s a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, actually closer to Turkey than the Greek mainland.
Here’s Buettner showing how they make bread in Ikaria:
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I like the woman in this video. She seems purposeful, determined, resourceful, talented. I look up to her.
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The people of Ikaria are Eastern Orthodox, as are the people of Crete, so they also restrict consumption of meat, dairy, olive oil, and alcohol for over half the year.
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Yes, she is fully involved in the task at hand, purposeful indeed. I wonder how many times in her life she has baked bread. And the previous post re the harvest and preparation of wheat flour in Greece was mind-boggling at the amount of work involved from start to finish. We know nothing of a full day’s work compared to that! Guess I should speak for myself on that one. Many people do work very hard.
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I would guess that the woman in this video spent more hours of her life working, physically working, than I have. It may end up being to her benefit.
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