Chewing gum made from mastic resin is a Greek staple that has some benefits for the mouth and gut. But it won’t change your ...

In Greece one name for mastic is “tears of Chios,” a reference to both the island where the resin is produced and the shape of the dried droplets­­, formed when farmers carve incisions in mastic trees ...

The Greek island of Chios is the only place in the world where the multipurpose mastic resin is cultivated. It's used for refining desserts, drugs and cosmetics — and nowadays also for making beer ...

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CHIOS, Greece (AP) – In response to Greece’s financial crisis, villagers on the eastern island of Chios carried on with what their ancestors had been profitably doing for centuries: patiently carving ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A love of esoteric ingredients can lead you to unusual places. Chios is a beautiful Greek island, five miles off ...

At first glance, the shaded, cobblestoned plateia (central square) in the medieval village of Kalamoti on the Greek island of Chios, seems far removed from the bustling streets of Amman, Jordan. The ...

NEW YORK — Like Greek mythology, the story of Mastic Spa begins by the Aegean Sea. Here, an evergreen scrub tree, the mastic, grows on the Greek island of Chios, and, remarkably, nowhere else in the ...