Spiridoula Tsintziras Spiridoula Tsintziras i(6694992 works by) (a.k.a. Spiri Tsintziras)
Gender: Female
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1 Logos Spiridoula Tsintziras , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: The Writing Mind : Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain 2023;
1 y separately published work icon My Ikaria : How the People from a Small Mediterranean Island Inspired Me to Live a Happier, Healthier and Longer Life Spiridoula Tsintziras , Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2018 12263025 2018 single work autobiography

'Three years ago, Spiri Tsintziras found herself mentally, physically and spiritually depleted. She was stretched thin – raising kids, running a household and managing a business. She ate too much in order to keep going and then slumped in front of the telly at night, exhausted, asking herself ‘What is it all for?’

'Spiri’s quest for a healthier, more nourishing life took her from her suburban home in Melbourne to her family’s homeland of Greece, and to the small Greek island of Ikaria. The people of Ikaria – part of the famous ‘Blue Zone’ – live happy, healthy and long lives. Inspired by their example, Spiri made some simple lifestyle changes and as a result lost weight, gained energy and deepened the connection to those closest to her. Best of all, she didn’t have to give up bread or wine!

'Spiri’s heartwarming memoir, which includes delicious family recipes, will console and entertain all of us who are bogged down in the daily grind – encouraging us to put our health and happiness first.' (Publication Summary)

1 2 y separately published work icon Afternoons in Ithaka Spiridoula Tsintziras , Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2014 6695026 2014 single work autobiography

'I remember crusty just-baked bread, rubbed with juicy tomato flesh, swimming in a puddle of thick green olive oil. I am seven years old. I sit on a stool in my grandmother's house. It is the height of summer in a seaside village in the south of Greece. We little Aussies devour 'tomato sandwiches' as the family chats and laughs and swats flies ... From the first heady taste of tomatoes on home-baked bread in her mother's village in Petalidi, to sitting at a taverna some 30 years later in Ithaka with her young family, Spiri Tsintziras goes on a culinary, creative and spiritual journey that propels her back and forth between Europe and Australia. These evocative, funny and poignant stories explore how food and culture, language and music, and people and their stories help to create a sense of meaning and identity.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 Yiayia's Tyganites Patates Spiridoula Tsintziras , 2013 single work biography
— Appears in: Kitchen Table Memoirs 2013;
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