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Coa Vestis

KOS (Island) DODEKANISSOS
   The Coan cloth or garments, mentioned by various authors, but most frequently by the Latin poets of the Augustan Age. From their expressions we learn that it had a great degree of transparency, that it was remarkably fine, that it was chiefly worn by women of loose reputation, and that it was sometimes dyed purple \ and enriched with stripes of gold. It has been supposed to have been made of silk, because in Cos silk was spun and woven at an early period, so as to obtain a high celebrity.

This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks

Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Per...

ASTYPALEA (Island) DODEKANISSOS
  Dairy products such as: beaten feta cheese, mezithra, anthotiro cheese for spaghetti, ksialina (a type of yoghurt), oil cheese (cheese pieces in oil) etc.
  Fish and seafood: salted fish (bream, sardine), sun-dried fish “liokafta” (bream), octopus, sargos, orfos, fagri, sinagrides, white-bait, skari, red-mullet-“barbounia”.
  Other dishes: lobster pasta, garlic macaroni, chick-pea, lentil and courgette balls “keftedes”, black olives, stuffed courgette flowers “dolmades”.
  Sweets: Honey biscuits “melomakarona”, finikia, loukoumades, sesame pasteli, halva with honey, fried pancakes- “xerotigana”, crepes, syruped fruits (quince, orange, bitter orange, bergamot).
  Herbs-decoctions: sage, oregano, thyme, chamomile.
(Text: Manolis Makris)
This text is cited February 2004 from the Dodekanissos Union of Municipalities & Communities pamphlet.

Traditional foods and sweets

KARPATHOS (Island) DODEKANISSOS
  Foods: various kinds of bread and barley donuts which accompany the local salty cheese or the meriari (made from full cream milk), the small pastries, kouloumbotes olives, sesame, egg and thin “kouloures”- biscuits, makarounes, vegetable pies, drilla, mezithra ofto (goat’s meat stuffed with rice), pihti, kavroumas, sitaka and others.
  Sweets: xilikopites, baklava (made very differently from the usual baklava), sweet mezithra cheese pies, sweet sesame pies and sitakopita etc.
(Text: Manolis Makris)
This text is cited February 2004 from the Dodekanissos Union of Municipalities & Communities pamphlet.

Traditional foods and sweets

MEGISTI (KASTELORIZO) (Island) DODEKANISSOS
  Foods: goat stuffed with rice (usually at Easter), salantroumasi (stuffed onions), saitia (rice with onion, mint and tomato), many varieties of fish (swordfish, tuna, sea-beam), etc.
  Sweets: koutoumari (round pan-fried pastry with sugar, cinnamon and cloves), halva, “straba”- crooked (baklava with kneaded pastry sheets) and others.
(Text: Manolis Makris)
This text is cited February 2004 from the Dodekanissos Union of Municipalities & Communities pamphlet.