Three cups of nuts, a cup and a half of butter, layers of flakey pastry, and enough sugar for an entire village, that’s Pakhlava. This weekend, Big Papa and I went to a shindig at “the other Beth’s,” aka Beth Whitman, the Wanderlust and Lipstick travel Diva! I thought it …
It was 1980. I was twenty and studying abroad in Amsterdam. Most of my fellow students were headed to the south of France for spring break. I had other plans.
My destination was Greece. I traveled by train through Germany, Austria, what was at the time Yugoslavia, before entering eastern Greece …
