Anyone who enjoys ouzo should visit the capital of Greece's national drink, the town of Plomari on Lesbos. Wolfgang Stelljes/dpa Be it an upmarket fish restaurant in the harbour of Mólivos, a major ...

Around midday, tabletops in Greece start to fill up with platefuls of crispy calamari and salads drenched in olive oil. Ice cubes clink into tall, narrow glasses filled with a strong, licorice-scented ...

If you've been to Greece, or even just a Greek restaurant with their immense hospitality, then it's likely you've had a glass of ouzo, an anise-flavoured aperitif. For those of us traumatised by the ...

It sounds like a party trick: Add water to the clear, licorice-flavored ouzo liquor, and watch it turn cloudy. This 'ouzo effect' is an example of an easy way to make highly stable emulsions -- or ...

It’s unclear how you take the owners of one mediocre Greek restaurant, combine them with the chef from another similarly unremarkable taverna, and come up with something as wonderful as Ouzo Blue. You ...

Whether it's Greek ouzo, French pastis or Turkish raki, when these spirits are diluted with water, the mixture becomes cloudy. The reason for this is that the aniseed oils contained in the spirit ...