Zacharias Papantoniou

“ For twenty-six people to live in the mountains, they must manage to do things with their own hands. Make bread, fetch water, prepare the meals.
“You are twenty-six companions and you are going to have to live together; you have the same problems and the same assets. So you make a community. How can you live without shops, without mills, without anything? ”

“ Everything you need for living you have to find for yourselves, like the shepherds, the Vlachs and the woodcutters. Are you going to eat today or not?
—We're going to eat! replied Foudoulis.
—We'll soon see if you're going to eat. For today you have a chef : Andreas. He has learnt to prepare ratatouille from the woodcutters. Today he's your cook. Now you're all going to help prepare the meal.”
Georgeakis, Alekos and Dimitrakis took to peeling the potatoes, Dimos and Kaloyannis to cutting up the beans and tomatoes. Others to cleaning the onions and others lit the fire. ”