Dairy store Periklis Alexis

Η Corfu It is still a myth, because its myth is maintained by people who have lived in mythical situations or next to mythical people and can tell stories that travel you. Stories like the one the gentleman tells us Costas Alexis the owner of the most famous and beautiful dairy in Corfu with the name “Dairy store Periklis Alexis".

«Ο Aristotle Onassis he had a great weakness for Jackie and he showed it to her in every way. So my father Pericles used to prepare a quantity of butter and a corresponding Corfiot strawberries every 15 days, which he delivered - in the late sixties - to an Olympic Airlines plane, which made the Paris-Corfu-Paris route every fifteen days, to Jackie can enjoy her favorite breakfast every day.»

This story and many more Mr. Costas can tell you for hours about the kings, Greeks and foreigners, but also the important international personalities, who came here to get his famous butter or to try his cream, rice milk or famous milk pudding.

In the area of ​​Pinia, on Vassiliou Street since the 1950s, in the cantons of the old town of Corfu there is a small but elegant shop that carries the legend, the Dairy store Periklis Alexis.

The three tables with the 6 chairs on the narrow sidewalk do not predispose you to what is happening inside, where you are greeted by a huge sculpture, which is nothing but Alexis Corfiot butter, which of course by noon will have disappeared from customer orders.

Immediately after, your gaze catches the smile of Mr. Costa who serves, a sandwich with butter and honey or cuts portions of the delicious milk pudding. Around it are placed on the wall, magazine entries that each present in their own way, the legend of Alexis.

I remember in my youth of the 60's the taste of Corfu butter, which was not missing from any house and I accompanied it with a simple cheese. At that time, in fact Corfu butter and salami of Lefkada, also from the Ionian Islands, was one of the few processed Greek products that had a designation of origin and was widely consumed.

Unfortunately, the standardized butters as well as the Tourism disappeared from 1980 the livestock in Corfu and consequently the butter of Corfu. Only in recent years has an effort been made to restore balance by creating interest in local and quality products. All these years, however, the "Fortress of Alexis" was strong.

«We have about thirty animals and we milk fresh milk every day. The real Corfu butter is different from the others because it is yellow since the flora of Corfu is special. Only in the summer when there is no food our butter is whiter. As soon as the animals start grazing the grass in the field, the butter turns yellow.»

Pericles handed it over to Costas, and Mr. Costas handed it over to his son Pericles.

To continue at the "Periklis Alexis Dairy" the delivery of art, the tradition of taste, the sweetness of taste and the sweetness of fairy tales and myths!