I'm going to try to slip away from work early, if I can.

This consists of piping-hot toasted pita bread with a picture-pretty display of four zesty spreads: hummus, ktipiti (hot pepper, feta cheese and olive oil), taramosalata (carp caviar) and melzanosalata (an eggplant, peppers and vinegar dish also known as melitzanes salata).

Our principal business here is to get drunk.

My baby is a perfect bundle of nerves, said one mother to another. She is so sensitive, she starts at the slightest sound. She sleeps only a few minutes at a time, and has to be walked or rocked to get her off again. She won't go to strangers, and I am a nervous wreck taking care of her.