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Peyia Market
Peyia Market
A couple of years ago we wrote an article on Peyia Market. Since then, they have moved to a more convenient location. Also, Alex wanted to sell some of her artistic creations, so she had her own stall. Let's go and see how she got on, and have a look around the market.
Read the article and chat about it below..
Read the article and chat about it below..
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Re: Peyia Market
Great report as always!
Interesting to see the sale of fasting cookies - and yes, it would be permissibly to dunk them in jam!
Just in case anyone is interested:
The rules around fasting in the Orthodox Church are confusing even for those in it, and differ both between jurisdictions (Russian, Greek, Cyprus, Romanian etc) and there are also regional variations.
There are many fasting days in the Church - the most prominent of course being Great Lent before Pascha (Easter) which is some 40 days in length. The Nativity Fast is also 40 days and precedes Christmas. There are also shorter fasts for the Dormition of the Mother of God, and also in honour of the Apostles. Each one leads up to a major Feast in the Church, and is a period not only concentrating on food, but also of prayer and almsgiving - without which is it merely a diet! Every Wednesday and Friday are fast days too, when we remember Christ's betrayal, and his crucifixion.
Altogether, there are rather more fast days in the year than not.
These periods are standard across the Orthodox Church but of course not every member will observe them all, particularly not in these increasingly secular times. Also, not everyone will observe all the culinary restrictions.
The fasting rules are set out primarily for Monastery use, but parishes and people will observe them as best they can.
On fast days we refrain from alcohol, meat and dairy products. Fish is also not allowed, but seafood is - basically you can eat it if it has no backbone!
Also oil is supposed to be avoided, so dressing-free salad and cooking with oil is avoided.
Your cookies would therefore not have eggs in, not butter, nor oil - but that would be following the rules to the letter!
Some fast days are classified "wine and oil" days, and on those days alcohol is allowed as is oil.
Other days might be "fish, wine and oil" and on those days we can eat fish too - but dairy and meat are still disallowed.
Then of course regional variations are common. The Russians for example don't cut out alcohol completely, only wine. They will still drink beer and vodka. On oil days, the Russians only avoid olive oil, but alternatives are allowed.
We first came to Cyprus for a holiday during Great Lent, and asked at a restaurant if we could have a "fasting meze". After a bit of surprise that someone English might also be Orthodox, the owner went away thrilled to prepare food. He then reappeared with a carafe of wine.
I queried this of course, as wine is not fasting-friendly where I come from. "Ah!" he said, "We Cyprus we always drink wine, but in fasts we don't drink the good wine!" That told me!
Interesting to see the sale of fasting cookies - and yes, it would be permissibly to dunk them in jam!
Just in case anyone is interested:
The rules around fasting in the Orthodox Church are confusing even for those in it, and differ both between jurisdictions (Russian, Greek, Cyprus, Romanian etc) and there are also regional variations.
There are many fasting days in the Church - the most prominent of course being Great Lent before Pascha (Easter) which is some 40 days in length. The Nativity Fast is also 40 days and precedes Christmas. There are also shorter fasts for the Dormition of the Mother of God, and also in honour of the Apostles. Each one leads up to a major Feast in the Church, and is a period not only concentrating on food, but also of prayer and almsgiving - without which is it merely a diet! Every Wednesday and Friday are fast days too, when we remember Christ's betrayal, and his crucifixion.
Altogether, there are rather more fast days in the year than not.
These periods are standard across the Orthodox Church but of course not every member will observe them all, particularly not in these increasingly secular times. Also, not everyone will observe all the culinary restrictions.
The fasting rules are set out primarily for Monastery use, but parishes and people will observe them as best they can.
On fast days we refrain from alcohol, meat and dairy products. Fish is also not allowed, but seafood is - basically you can eat it if it has no backbone!
Also oil is supposed to be avoided, so dressing-free salad and cooking with oil is avoided.
Your cookies would therefore not have eggs in, not butter, nor oil - but that would be following the rules to the letter!
Some fast days are classified "wine and oil" days, and on those days alcohol is allowed as is oil.
Other days might be "fish, wine and oil" and on those days we can eat fish too - but dairy and meat are still disallowed.
Then of course regional variations are common. The Russians for example don't cut out alcohol completely, only wine. They will still drink beer and vodka. On oil days, the Russians only avoid olive oil, but alternatives are allowed.
We first came to Cyprus for a holiday during Great Lent, and asked at a restaurant if we could have a "fasting meze". After a bit of surprise that someone English might also be Orthodox, the owner went away thrilled to prepare food. He then reappeared with a carafe of wine.
I queried this of course, as wine is not fasting-friendly where I come from. "Ah!" he said, "We Cyprus we always drink wine, but in fasts we don't drink the good wine!" That told me!
