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The foods we consume affect our physical and emotional health and wellbeing, but so does the actual act of cooking, which I turn to and highly recommend in good times and hard times. Take a look at three of the Mediterranean Diet’s most delicious and healthful ingredients, good for our bodies and minds!
The kitchen and the provision of food have traditionally been women’s domaine in Greece, the only place they were able to exercise power. Read this interesting essay by guest blogger and Athens by Fork guide Finiki Papadopoulou.
On Monday, March 2, Orthodox Lent begins. Tahini, a paste made from sesame seeds, is an important part of the food traditions today but throughout the 40-day fasting period, as well. It is used in lieu of olive oil and to some extent in lieu of dairy, as it is one of the most calcium-rich foods on the planet. In the U.S. tahini is mostly an afterthought—we know it mainly for its use in hummus. But this small (but mighty) sesame seed packs such an amazing nutritional punch that it’s worth a starring role on our table.
Greek whites run the gamut from bone dry to floral and highly aromatic. Discover one of Greece’s most aromatic grapes in this short introduction to Moschofilero, which translates literally as “aromatic leaf.”
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.
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 […]
How to cook Greens (Horta) 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 […]
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, […]
Krokos Kozanis, or saffron, has flavored the foods and drinks of Greece forever. The tiny crocus flower from which saffron is harvested grows wild on Greek islands and has been prized since Minoan times. All Greek saffron is now cultivated in the damp, chilly climate of Kozani in Macedonia, Northern Greece. Time-tested and delicious, it’s one of the finest saffrons in the world.
Feta, the briny, creamy, tangy national cheese of Greece, has the power to transform every table because of its universal appeal. Check out my latest blog post on last-minute feta recipes for Thanksgiving. Sure, in a wedge of feta, there is the whole of Greek agricultural history: an ancient shepherd’s cheese born of the mountainous regions of Greece (80% of the country is mountains), preserved in the one of the oldest way known to man, in salt.