Showing the Today Show’s Savannagh how to work with filo wasn’t easy! We made spinach triangles together.
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Showing the Today Show’s Savannagh how to work with filo wasn’t easy! We made spinach triangles together.
A Meatless Monday recommendation should probably be a lot more accessible than a traditional dish from the mountains of Western Crete could ever hope to be. But when I cam across this dish from my friend Diana Farr Louis’ wonderful book Feasting and Fasting in Crete, I suddenly craved a warming bowl of this...
This simple, but delicious recipe makes a wonderful main-coure vegetarian dish. It is adapted from Feasting and Fasting in Crete by Diana Farr Louis. Look for trahana or Cretan Xinohondros, an unusual but very tradition grain product from the Eastern Mediterranean and Greece, in Greek grocery stores all across the world. This is a...
On a chilly Sunday in Athens, still worn out from a marathon of holiday cooking, and too spent to have gone to the supermarket with the Saturday crowds, I cooked with what was left in the fridge. That turned out to be a bunch of carrots, a little ginger, a dollop of the only...
Pun intended: The Donkey Beers are…kick-ass! Despite the “frigid” and uncertain economic times Greece is going through, a small group of optimistic–and slightly crazy–friends (as they describe themselves) took a risk and opened one of Greece’s most innovative businesses, the Santorini Brewing Company. The driving spirit behind the brewery is none other than Yiannis...
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...
