It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged about Manouri cheese and I promise not to allow this lapse of cheese to occur again. Cheeses are an integral part of Greek cuisine: we have Feta for salads or at the table with olives and bread, we have a wide array of firm sheep’s milk cheeses served at [...]
I would be a damn fool if I told you that Greece had a banner year for tourism. It didn’t. In most of the places that I visited you couldn’t tell there’s was a major drop in business, although business owners were harping about the drop in receipts. From the perspective of the tourist, it [...]
Greece gears up for 2500th Anniversary of Battle of Marathon Chef Michael Psilakis will be the keynote speaker at the Hellenic American Women’s Council 17th Annual Conference on Nov.13th Get your Yiayia on in the kitchen this 98-year old grandmother Wineplus hosts a seminar called “Wine & Cheese: a love match” at the Excelsior Hotel [...]
This past summer while in Greece we had a little thing goin’ on with friends: bring some leftovers to the beach so that we could [...]
One of the most wonderful dishes one can have in the Greek repertoire of recipes is a fish or seafood soup. There’s Kakavia which is usually tomato based and contains whatever fish and seafood is in season or caught on that day. The best Kakavias contain the Scorpion fish. The other soups are called Psarosoupes [...]
While in Greece, I was wired/connected to the Internet for the first time right at our family’s summer home. I brought my laptop so that I could upload the hundreds of photos, write a blog post (or five) and check/send emails on a whim. While in Greece I received an invite by the Greek Consulate [...]
Watch Vefa & Alexia Alexiadou’s new cooking show “Sth Kouzina Mazi” on BlueSky TV The New York City Greek Film Festival commences today (Oct.22nd) and the last feature being shown on Oct.31st WinePlus hosts a day of tasting the finest in Cypriot wines at the posh Grand Bretagne Hotel in Athens Quick Trip: 24-hours in [...]
It must be two years since I began to make and bake my own bread at home. I haven’t made anything too adventurous – crusty loaves of bread, pizza dough, pita bread, Koulouria. I’d like to make a good loaf for sandwich bread and that’s a project in the near future. In the meantime, I [...]
If you’ve ever eaten pork steaks then you can relate to my enthusiasm for this cut of pork. A pork steakette is cut from the pork butt, a square piece of meat that’s attached to the shoulder. The pork butt (also known as the Boston butt) comes from the shoulder (not the pig’s rear) and [...]
Just a couple of days into my trip to Greece and I began in earnest to meet the first round of folks who are passionate about Greek cuisine and take pride in the products they produce. Technology has it’s good and bad points but when it comes to connecting with new friends, acquaintances and the [...]
