"Scarcely could words describe the rediscovery of something once familiar. This feeling shook Manolis heart: the instant realisation of a necessity deemed trifling only a second ago. Manolis wholeheartedly felt he had found the single missing piece of his happiness mosaic. He raised his glass to his new old-life and to many more mizithropites he was finally to taste there, at home. "Roll up your sleeves and dive into the world of flavour! 8 1/2 Cups of Happiness is a palimpsest of tastes and emotion, where the past meets the present in an everlasting dance of senses and memories. This book is a mosaic consisting of stories from people all over Europe, fabling the past through an array of impressions, sentiments and... food!