Dieting religiously

Interesting article I came across about eating-in on Mount Athos, sure it will be of great interest to Bryan and Tony. Well, to Tony, maybe:

In a secluded Orthodox Christian sanctuary, the phone is ringing again for Father Epifanios Milopotaminos.

Ever since he wrote a cookbook sharing his secrets for feeding his fellow monks, Milopotaminos' cell phone rings constantly with requests to speak at seminars, appear on television and do cooking demonstrations.

He's an unlikely candidate for sudden celebrity; in the nearly four decades since he took charge of cooking on the secluded Mount Athos sanctuary, little about what he does has changed.

"It's the same way meals were prepared 100 years ago, or 50 years ago," Epifanios says of the meat- and dairy-free diet, much of it cooked over a log fire. "It's a clean diet that people once ate across the eastern Mediterranean."
rep-am.com