Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu (23 page)

 
Raki
. Distilled from raisins. Alcoholic.

 
Salepi
. Tea made from bulbs. Excellent. Swamp orchis provides the bulbs.

 
Retsina
. Resinated wine. Turpentine flavour. Very good with meals but not for solitary drinking or parties.

 
Mastika
. Mastic liquor.

Dishes to Experiment With

 
Whitebait Fried with Lemon.
Ask for “Marides”
.

 
Pipe Fish Fried with Rice.
Ask for “Vellanida”
.

 
Cuttlefish with Sauce.
Ask for “soupya”
.