A Feeling for the Macedonian Earth
One of the more soul-scorching, mind-boggling, tummy-aching ironies of history is that the land which produced the leader who first conceived the idea of the brotherhood of man, and proclaimed it while out on the road to its realization at a banquet set for 10,000, over 2000 kilometers from home (Alexander the Great at Opis), should two millennia later give its name to a dish of diced, mixed vegetables which are, more likely than not, leftovers from last night’s dinner.
