Paul Solman of the PBSNewsHour interviews food critic Diane Kochilas about Greece’s current economic decline. Kochilas purports that Greek food can serve as a great economic barometer to measure the current financial woes of the mediterranean nation. As Greece became more entwined with the world economy and foreign trends, the food in local restaurants grew in extravagance. Eventually it became prohibitively expensive to eat at a fine Greek restaurant because they no longer used affordable locally grow ingredients. For Kochila, Greece’s decline began when it abandoned the nations traditional rustic values.
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