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Holy Snail Day

5/2/2019

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Snails of Chania. Crete, Greece / Holy Snail Day / Karen McCann / EnjoyLivingAbroad.com
Hohli bourbouristi, snails cooked in rosemary, are a favorite comfort food in Crete. And the little critters are healthy eating, with just 72 calories and one gram of fat per serving.

​If I’d blinked, I would have missed the snails completely. We were passing a dusty parking lot in an unfashionable section of Chania, Crete when out of the very corner of my eye I caught the flash of a yellow chair under a tree beyond the cars. Someone’s private dining spot? No, wait; turning, I saw more chairs and a scattering of tables. A battered sign said helpfully, ΠΕΡΠΕΡΑΣ. Rich and I strolled in to take a closer look.
 
And that’s how we met Yannis, chief cook and proprietor of Perperas. He gave us a warm welcome and presented us with a handwritten English menu that was short on descriptions and long on intriguing possibilities. The meal was a delight: tzatziki made from thick Greek yogurt, garlic, and cucumber; grated zucchini patties sautéed in olive oil; a pie that might have been quiche’s Cretan cousin. 


Snails are everyday fare in Crete, the local equivalent of American burgers or British fish and chips. During the 40-day Lenten fast, when people are expected to refrain from eating meat, fish, even dairy, it’s OK to consume snails and shellfish; they’re exempt on the technicality of not having a backbone. It's customary to eat snails on the Thursday before Easter, and Yannis very kindly agreed to let me come into his kitchen last week, on Orthodox Holy Thursday, so I could be initiated into the mysteries of hohli bourbouristi.
 
Brace yourself, because the process is a gruesome one. More so for the snails, obviously, but fairly distressing for humans of tender sensibilities as well. Captured when spring rain forces them out of their underground dens, the snails are sequestered in a mesh cage or simply a circle of salt, which they can’t cross because salt is lethal to snails. For at least three days, often a week or more, the captives are fed a bland diet of flour or dry pasta, which is said to make them excrete all their toxins. Then they are thrown live into a pot of boiling water which is soon covered with a white froth of snail saliva. Cookbooks advise keeping an eye out for those trying to escape so you can catch them and toss them back in.
 
As you can imagine, the creepy backstory did nothing to enhance my appetite. “I’m calling this post ‘Snails from the Crypt,’” I whispered to Rich. Fortunately I was spared the grim necessity of witnessing these atrocities in the flesh. Yannis explained a family of snail collectors in the nearby village handled all that, delivering the snails to his kitchen clean and ready to cook.

Yannis rinsed 30 large snails in water, then dusted them with a third of a cup of flour. (He never measured, so all quantities are very approximate.) Then he poured a quarter of a cup of olive oil into a frying pan and set it on the burner. He pressed the fleshy foot of each snail into salt then set it in the pan. “They go in ‘face down,’ as we say,” he told me. “The name bourbouristi comes from the Cretan abouboura, which means ‘face down.’” When the snails were sizzling, he pulled leaves off of two sprigs fresh rosemary and sprinkled them on top, adding a pinch of pepper. Pouring half a cup of strong red wine vinegar over everything, he let it cook for about three minutes until the liquid reduced to a thick sauce. "Done!" he said.


He took them outside to our table and set them down with a flourish.

It was love at first bite. “Oh my God,” I kept gasping. “Wow!”
 
Using the outermost tine of his fork to pry out a morsel, Rich slurped it down. He kissed the shell he held his fingers. “These snails,” he said, “were not sacrificed in vain.”
 
Lenten observances in Greece are big on sacrifice, starting with 40 days of fasting and culminating on the eve of Easter when Judas Iscariot, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, is burned in effigy in towns all across the island. We witnessed the ritual in Loutro, a village on the southern coast of Crete. 


The evening began with the traditional Orthodox liturgy held in a church so small people took turns going inside to pay their respects then gathered outside chatting quietly. Eventually the priest emerged and sang into a microphone held by an altar boy, reading the lyrics off a cell phone tucked into a hymnal. Men and boys took turns ringing the church bell. After the kiss of peace, everyone lit their candles; some kids carried fancy ones decorated with unicorns, Barbie, or Spiderman. Then the bonfire was ablaze on the beach, and altar boys, bell ringers, and Spiderman fans began throwing fire crackers into the blaze, making everyone jump. As flames consumed the effigy, fireworks exploded overhead. Once again, sin had been vanquished. 

Bonfire / Loutro Crete, Greece / Holy Snail Day / Karen McCann / EnjoyLivingAbroad.com
It was a magnificent bonfire; the air was filled with flaming sparks, and the remains were still burning when I got up the next morning.

​Easter Sunday was a quieter affair as families released from fasting gathered to feast on lamb, the traditional symbol of sacrifice and salvation. In Greece, the practice of animal sacrifice dates back to Neolithic times; more recently it appears as the Passover lamb, first offered during the Israelites' Exodus from Egypt, and in New Testament passages where John the Baptist refers to his cousin as “Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” For us, more prosaically, lamb was simply lunch.
 
For this meal, Rich and I had chosen a family-run restaurant on the hill just above the church, and during the morning we dropped by to see how the roasting was coming along. The lamb was turning slowly on the spit, looking all too much like a human sacrifice. There was aluminum foil draped over its loins, like the white cloths strategically placed on naked figures in old church art.

Roast lamb / Easter Sunday / Loutro Crete, Greece / Holy Snail Day / Karen McCann / EnjoyLivingAbroad.com

“Boy, these guys really know how to work a theme,” I said to Rich.
 
The snails, bonfire, and lamb of Easter — as well as the island of Crete itself — are now just fond memories. Yesterday we took a ferry north to Greece's Mani Peninsula, a rural area on the southern tip of the Peloponnese. Our modest hotel overlooks the island of Gytheio, where Paris of Troy and Helen of Sparta spent their first night together, having the sex that launched a thousand ships, culminating in the Trojan War. Rich and I don't expect our further adventures in Greece to be quite that exciting, but we are looking forward to more good food and fun times. Stay with us on the journey!

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Jackie Smith link
5/2/2019 04:32:58 pm

I see the challenge we have before us, but never fear, between the Mani Meat, the Mani Sausage, and Mani Cheese (not to ignore our world-famous Kalamata Olive Oil) we are on. Time to show you another round of Greek eats!!!

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Karen McCann
5/2/2019 05:51:50 pm

Jackie, I have no doubt that you and Joel will introduce us to phenomenal aspects of Greek cuisine during our days on the Mani Peninsula. My mouth is watering already!

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Jean Bush
5/3/2019 01:17:55 am

Well, shame on me for using Snail Bait in my garden! Now I know where to bring those babies when they appear on Hillside Ave...

No more Sluggo Plus for us...

Great post, Karen and Rich!

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Karen McCann
5/3/2019 04:43:35 pm

Jean, I can just picture you browsing around your garden collecting snails for the dinner table — and pulling it off with tremendous style. Talk about all natural food! Glad you liked the post. Let me know if you ever decide to whip up a batch of hohli bourbouristi. Seems like something Paul would love.

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Faye
5/4/2019 01:25:51 am

Love this post, Karen. Snails look delicious, the lamb not so much. My snails in Paris last summer did ‘t look anything like yours! They were bright green and I could not coax those little critters out, even w/ a special piece of snail cutlery! Rich certainly looks handsome and o soooo mellow in this pic.

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Karen McCann
5/4/2019 07:03:56 am

You're so right, Faye, the lamb was considerably less thrilling than the snails. It wasn't easy extracting the snails from their shells; we tried fork tines and toothpicks, and eventually got the hang of it with both. I've heard there's proper snail cutlery but never tried it. Maybe the simpler methods are best. As for Rich looking mellow, Yannis asked us to arrive early, a little after 7, so we could shoot before the evening rush. But people kept arriving and we didn't start the shoot for another 3 hours. Yannis kept bringing us glass after glass of wine. By then, Rich was extremely mellow; I'm amazed he could hold the camera so steady!

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Kitty
5/5/2019 12:13:35 am

Where do those snails come from? Maybe I could substitute Manilla clams? We are off to a Greek dinner in NYC with our nephew and family tonight. No snails on the menu but am excited for octopus. I looked forward to your blog all week. It seemed like a long time. I need more recipes so we can go on the Mediterranean diet when we get home Monday.

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Karen McCann
5/5/2019 05:27:38 pm

So happy you're enjoying the blog, Kitty! As for snails, I'm not sure whether you can even find them in California's markets; maybe in SF's Chinatown? If you try the recipe with clams I want a full report, with photos! Enjoy the octopus, which is hugely popular here. When we visited Naples, a local showed us the fish stall where an octopus recently escaped and went running down the street. They barely managed to catch it before it went down a drain in the street. Hope yours is better behaved.

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