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 How it all started?
The story begins in England, in the 1980s. It was then, that many
people became ill because they eat eggs infected with Salmonella. The eggs
were the product of a number of battery farms that kept hens in cages without
any room to move, simply used as egg laying machines. The chickens were fed
contaminated food and the eggs were infected in turn. This would never have
happened if the birds were kept in an environment as near to natural as possible.
In the ensuing years, many similar stories unfolded in a number of
countries.
Mad cow disease in England, cancerous additives in olive oil in Spain,
excessive quantities of antibiotics in honey, pesticides in spinach in China
and so on. For as long as there is greed, there will be people that will not
stop in anything for profit.
It was partially for the above reasons and partially the knowledge
that Greece is maybe the last country in Europe to remain natural that made
us decide to come to Japan and create "NOSTIMIA".
 That is when the challenge began. Hundreds of letters, E-Mail & Faxes were send out to producers in Greece and most of them replied. Catalogues,
price lists and other glossary started mounding up. Then with
all the information collected, I started a long car journey,
visiting each and every one of them. Three months and 10,000km
driving later, I had the products I wanted.
For each one of them chosen, many others were rejected. They had
to be the right products, for high quality, taste and most importantly produced
in the way nature indented! All of them are either organically produced or
produced in a way that respects nature, and without the use of chemicals,
either in cultivation or in processing. Every one of them produced in the
same traditional way they have been produced since time immemorial.
Every one of them produced by people with deep love for their land
and their heritage, living and working the land or processing its gifts in
a way that respects man and nature.
I present their products to you with pride and confidence. They are
the products I was raised with by my parents, and I raise my 7-year-old daughter
with, in turn, for I know that they are wholesome, pure and tasty, produced
in the land of my birth. |
