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Now available is Tassia Dendrinou's book, introducing recipes from the Greek cuisine and including a special feature on Kefalonia, the natural beauty of the island, its traditional produce and local recipes. Apart from the recipes the book includes many photographs of the island, taken by photographer Michael Kouvidis. As the author herself points out in the introduction to the book, «...In my opinion cooking, apart from some basic rules, is all about love, imagination and soul. To me, a home is not a place filled with beautiful furniture and rich carpets, it is a place...

Greek cuisine is known for its diversity and quality, and is considered one of the most popular cuisines of the Mediterranean. Wheat and its products, olive trees and olive oil, milk, vegetables, fruits, meat and fish has formed the basis of the Greek diet, from antiquity until our modern times. Greeks are regarded as gourmands;therefore food, by tradition, holds a prominent place in their daily lives. The Greek traditional cuisine covers a wide variety of tasty dishes, ptoduced with fresh and healthy ingredients that originate from the Greek land.

The Cretan diet is the ultimate model of the Mediterranean diet. Since ancient times, it was considered the ideal diet for the longevity and good health of the Cretans. Thus, the people of Crete have kept all these succesful dietary habits, always consuming the precious products that their blessed soil offers to them. In recent years the Cretan diet in correlation with the Cretan's excellent physical health, became the target of a worldwide interest. Many scientists started researching and eventually publishing their findings in scientific journals.The results concurres: th...

In the first half of the 20th century, Greece was mainly a rural country. Greek women, being loyal to their traditions, kept the delicious recipes of their mothers and grandmothers alive by using seasonal, home-grown products. Maria Loi presents these traditional recipes from the famous, healthy and tasteful Greek cuisine in a way that meets the expectations of modern culinary needs.

Ninety irresistible recipes - simple, delicious and healthy - cooked only with olive oil - a taste ofMani in your own home Healthy fresh local produce, olive oil (of course) and local herbs combine to make the Mani diet. It is no surprise that these ingredients give us exciting, tasty and healthy meals. Here I would like to share with you a few of my favourite Mani recipes. With this book, you will find it easy to create and enjoy meals full of goodness, bursting with flavour and Mani sun, in your own home.

A hundred twenty six recipes, containing all the secrets of the macrobiotic diet, that the monks of Holy Mountain Athos follow for centuries, revealed for the first time by Elder Epiphanios of Mylopotamos. I love cooking not because I want to please or be flattered but because I love the people I am cooking for. I hope that the book you hold in your hands, apart from the assistance of the recipes, helps you to get even closer to those you love through cooking. Open up your homes, invite your friends, cook together, set the table, drink wine, and celebrate... "The monk...

Mary Simeon Zografou, born of parents from Asia Minor -famous cookers- and the cooking passed on her. Characteristically she says: "Along with the school every day with my grandmother we were cooking together. My grandmother was from Smyrna (Izmir). My other grandmother was from Konstantinoupoli (Istanbul) so I started gradually to learn. When I was cooking something by myself, I was very proud ... "Later, I had my mother in law which was from Marmari Euboea. So she taught me many recipes. As she saw that I like to cook, she was helping me to learn how to make various d...

The dishes of Greek cookery, in particular those that constitute its identity, are largely unknown to the broader public. This is not the book in which to find the recipes usually contained in such publications, such as moussaka, stuffed vegetables or horiatiki salad, mainly because they are already well known and almost identified with a tourist's perception of Greek cuisine. From the vast wealth of recipes I have recorded in the systematic research I have been conducting over the past fourteen years all over the country, I selected (with great difficulty, I have to admit)...

Here is the English edition of Vefa Alexiadou's spectacular collection of Greek specialities, which has served to revitalize this ancient cuisine for a whole new generation of cooks the world over. Here she invites you to her table laden with the tasty dishes of pulses, vegetables, fish, traditional, cheeses, and olive oil, key ingredients in the nutricius diet of the Eastern Mediterranean. These 300 authentic "life - tested" recipes have been adjusted to modern tastes without sacrificing traditional textures and flavors. Her imagination and skill at presentation are unequa...

[...] When ouzo comes into contact with ice or when we place it in the refrigerator, the essential oils of anethole (anise as we talked about before) freeze and form crystals which give us gastric acid, heartburn and headache and then we blame the meze because we think it is their fault. So what do we do when we want our ouzo to be cool? We simply place as many ice cubes as we wish in the glass or the carafe with water, but never directly in the ouzo. This is one of the five 'must nots' which we must follow in order to enjoy our ouzo and avoid... collateral damage. 2) We d...

Whenever we refer to the ancient Greek civilisation, the material relics of our ancestors immediately spring to mind; the temples, the monuments and the sculptures. We think of the philosophers and their scriptures; the ancient theatre, the comedies and the tragedies; the exceptional astronomers and mathematicians; the idea of democracy. However, the above don't encapsulate the whole meaning of civilisation. Civilisation is also the way of life, the mentality of a nation, the way we talk, even the way we eat. Besides, the ancient Greeks had a proverb "Nouc Yyihc Ev loouc...

Marika Mitsotaki, wife, mother and cook extraordinaire, serves up a lifetime of memories: about her mother and mentor in things culinary; about the serious blow to her health when as a child she was struck by polio; about her meeting Kostas Mitsotakis, their courtship, marriage and the arrival of their four children; about the difficult years of the dictatorship in Greece, the family's self-exile to Paris and their eventual return to the parental house in Crete. Moreover, the turbulent as well as exciting mosaic of her life as spouse of one of the country's longest serving...

Bring Mediterranean cuisine to your table with 90 unique island recipes It is the clear, Greek light, the azure sea and the mild, unique climate that endow the land of Greece with exceptional flavors and rare fragrances. In this book, I share my own childhood paradise, a treasure of delicious tastes and recipes from my birthplace, the Aegean island of Samos. You will experience a simple, healthy and balanced cuisine that brings the essence of the Mediterranean diet to your table. Recipes full of Greek authentic flavors and aromas which find a place in the gastronom...

70 Greek recipes. 70 photos of the Greek gastronomy. It’s love at first sight but first comes the camera and then the recipe. Her grandmother and mother taught her how to cook and now its time for you to Cook like a Greek. Cook like a Greek with the help of a 70 recipes for main courses, Appetizers, H’orderves, Snacks and Party Dishes , Salads and Sweets, finally gives you an aswer to the daily question of your life, "what to cook for lunch , for the kids, for dinner"? A fresh look and perspective in the greek gastronomy, the book "Cook like a Greek" will teach you...

Τι περιλάμβανε η διατροφή στην αρχαιότητα; Τι έτρωγαν, πώς και γιατί το διάλεγαν; Ήταν τυχαίες οι διατροφικές επιλογές ή μήπως αποτελούσαν μέρος τόσο της κουλτούρας και του πολιτισμού όσο και της ιατρικής; Ο Γιώργος Ηλιόπουλος στο βιβλίο "Γαστρονομική τέχνη της μαγειρικής στην Αρχαία Ελλάδα" δίνει απαντήσεις σε αυτά τα ερωτήματα καταγράφοντας τη γαστρονομική διαδρομή της κοινωνίας επί μία σχεδόν χιλιετία, από τον Όμηρο έως τον Αθήναιο. Ήδη από τότε, ο ελληνικός κόσμος συνδέει την διατροφή με την ιατρική, δημιουργώντας την διατροφολογία, με απόψεις που εκτίθενται σε αποκ...

Recipes from all over Greece.