Day 30: Eatin Like A Cretan

I am 1/3rd way through my adventure and it feels like it is really just beginning!
Yesterday felt like a critical point as I kind of lost it and came to a point of frustration with myself.  I feel like I have been doing everything half-assed.  Of course, as one person from Crete commented on my blog, I need to relax about the whole thing.  That is what they would do in Crete.
Today, I am going to make the Briam again (Yum!).

A piece of history:  After World War 2 ended, Crete was in really tough shape.  It had been completely devastated.  In the U.S., the Rockefeller Foundation decided they wanted to do something to help Crete around their diet (they were basically starving by the end of WWII).  From what I know so far, the foundation sent student nurses to 1 out of every 150 homes in Crete.  These nurses wrote down everything that was eaten in each of these homes for a week.  What was found from this study was that they were eating a plant based diet (very little meat), but that they were also incredibly healthy.  The Foundation's only recommendation was based on the wants of the people in Crete instead of their needs.  The people of Crete said they wanted more meat.  Of course, the interesting thing about that is that adding more meat to the diet (as well as sugar) has been the downfall of the health of Crete's population recently.