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8 January 2020
All over the north, from Epirus to Alexandroupoli, savory pies abound. Most call for phyllo, either homemade or commercially prepared, but many also call for a crust of cornmeal. They go by various names, can be found in similar renditions all over the region and were an easy solution for the daily dinner table, at once healthful, filling and ...
6 January 2020
The flavors of Laconia are pared down and intense, characterized by health-giving simplicity transported on a constant flow of the region's famed emerald green olive oil.
2 January 2020
In Greece, people eat well over 300 edible wild plants, many of them weeds! We call them horta and they are nutritional bombshells, bursting with vitamins, minerals and all sorts of other great things. Today, in one of the main Greek papers, I read about the cookbook of recipes from Nazi-Occupied Greece, a time when people in Athens, where starvation ...
2 January 2020
HOW TO COOK GREENS While it might seem odd to a non-Greek cook to boil greens until they are extremely soft, this is the way Greeks like to eat them. In Greek cooking, all sorts of greens, wild and cultivated, sweet and bitter, are boiled, typically in a big pot filled with salted water that is at the point of ...
1 January 2020
Around this time of the year, I start to tally up the excesses of the holidays. Too much bread, too many sweets, cheeses, meat etc. Most of us get the picture. I also start to turn to the one thing that makes me feel really good when I eat it: greens. Called horta in Greek, greens are the go-to food ...
31 December 2019
This Thessaloniki classic dessert is easy but also makes for an artful, dramatic presentation.
31 December 2019
The combination of meats with nuts and dried fruits is a favorite in the contemporary Greek kitchen. This dish goes well with a glass of Northern Greek Xinomavro red wine.
31 December 2019
In the cooking of northern Greece, baked rice dishes appear in several places and make for a regional specialty, since in few other places around the country are rice dishes prepared in the oven. This dish, called rithanathema in Greek, possibly traces its etymology to the Greek word for bird, ornitha, and that for food, edesma. It is a ...
24 December 2019
Greek recipes for roasted potatoes abound! This one is an extra easy, pan-roasted Greek potato dream, made even more delicious with great extra virgin Greek olive oil and Krokos Kozanis, aka Greek saffron.
17 December 2019
This wonderful Greek recipe inspired by the traditional French Tarte Tatin, is sweetened with petimezi , grape molasses, and seasoned with Mastiha powder and Greek wild herbs.
