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Mastiha: the Distinctive Aroma of Mastic

By Diana Farr Louis

Jun 01, 2012
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Yiorgos Rikaniadis “embroiders” mastiha trees near the village of Mesta in southern Chios.    Diana Farr Louis

THE LENTISK IS A TOUGH little evergreen tree, not much to look at. It grows no more than about three meters (ten feet) tall and has small, dark green leaves gathered in clusters; its trunk and branches are scaly and sinewy, twisted like rope. Pi…

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