Sauces in Greek Cooking

12 October 2011

The ancient Greeks had a decidedly more complex palate when it came to sauces than do their contemporary heirs. In today’s Greek kitchen, sauces and dressings tend to be relatively simple and easy to prepare. Avgolemono. This is the fundamental Greek sauce-liaison, used to flavor all sorts of dishes, from soups to stews to stuffed, rolled vegetables. It is made ...

26. Greek Regional Pasta

10 October 2011

In this nation of bread eaters, the subject of regional pasta is, ironically, vast. There are, indeed, dozens, if not more, different traditional Greek pastas, and certainly dozens of ways to cook them. Some are truly unusual. A Little History Pasta has always been part and parcel of the Greek larder. Common belief has it that Marco Polo was the ...