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  • I went with a group of "f**dies", gastronomers or gastros to a special preview & spoke to a Greek born chef who had family members who were similarly deported from their businesses in Turkey back to Greece.

    At My Table 2008

  • Scharfenebbe, the crow's wife, when she came to peck his eyes out, if he had not been hungry; and that [Greek: gastros anankê], that craving of the stomach, makes a difference quite infinite.

    Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Now Reineke would not have hurt a creature, not even Scharfenebbe, the crow's wife, when she came to peck his eyes out, if he had not been hungry; and that gastros ananke, that craving of the stomach, makes a difference quite infinite.

    Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856

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