The mastic growers of southern Chios go out to the trees in the early morning before the sun rises. In those mornings, the air is cool — fragrant with a piney, almost medicinal, smell.

On the island of Chios, Greeks strategically cut the bark of trees to expose a gummy, sticky sap. The aromatic resin from the ...

It’s unlikely many people have ever heard of mastiha, a natural resin excreted from the trunk of the evergreen Mediterranean schinos tree ... on the Greek island of Chios, claim it eases ...