Dining-Drinking
June, 1969
The women of the Greek island of Mykonos, you may not know, are famous for their cultivation of domestic virtues. So determined are these gritty ladies to preserve hearth and home that, legend has it, they once sent letters to Napoleon demanding that should he or his randy troops chance through Mykonos in their pursuit of empire, there were to be no rapes--repeat, no rapes--either of them or of their beautiful dark daughters. Dalliance, perhaps, but no rape. When they were not writing antirape l...