One of the most recognized Greek foods has to be the Souvlaki. i.e. cubes of meat skewered and grilled over glowing embers. The most common souvlaki you’ll find in Greek eateries is pork but you’ll also find chicken, lamb and beef versions. The other popular Greek street food has to be the Gyro: slabs of [...]
For those here in Canada, Christine Cushing is a household name, having appeared on Food Network Canada (a franchise of the US parent company) from the very beginning. I remember first seeing Christine on her “Dish It Out” show but she went nationwide tackling the vacant early evening slot with her live one-hour cooking show [...]
This week’s photo was sent in my Iveta Hortashka from when she visited Egremni Beach on the island of Lefkada. The photo was take by her friend Alexander Hinkov and I think Lefkada just moved up on my list of islands to visit. As always, send your favourite photos from Greece (or from any Greek [...]
Greek Food Guru, Diane Kochilas have taken our budding friendship to another level as we have organized a tour of Northern Greece that will excite even the most world-weary traveler with some of Greece’s best cuisine, artisan producers of Greek products and some of Greece’s top wineries. Diane bring her expertise as a cookbook author, [...]
I grew up having not one great cook in the household but two! My dad emigrated to Canada in the 1950′s, on the encouragement of his older brother and uncle, Pantelis ( the fellow I was named after). Like many other immigrant stories, families left their homelands en-masse to greener pastures and in the case [...]
I think every home should have a Beef Bourguignon dish in the family’s roster of Sunday dishes. The dish demands patience (time) to be successful, little kitchen skill and a keen eye to some quality ingredients. Beef Bourguignon is translated as “beef in the style of Burgundy”…from the Burgundy region of France, of course. The [...]
Top Chef contestant and Greek-American Marissa Churchill is interviewed in Greece’s “Eltherotypia” on the release of her first book, “Sweet & Skinny” Theodoros Pantaleon, Thessaloniki’s master of herbs & spices Traditional menus are winning over modern, “nouveau” Greek cuisine A community on the Black Sea (north-east Turkey) discovered where they speak an Romeyka, an Ancient [...]
Last year while congregated with some good friends for late-night dining in Thessaloniki, I had the joy to eat these Onion Dolmades at a taverna in Thessaloniki. I’ve been wanting to make these for a few years but I was frankly intimidated by the whole process of peeling the onions and stuffing them. Would the [...]
This post is part bio, part-story of a new friendship, part education on the shaping of Greek cuisine and part recommendation. Last year I had the fortune to connect with Diane Kochilas through Facebook with what I thought would be just another fair-weather friendship on the web. You see, Diane Kochilas is a New York [...]
One of Toronto’s old standby’s for pub-grub, hang-out for drinks or actually going out for above-average food on a pauper’s budget has just moved on up the street. Well, actually this pub moved one building south of it’s long-time location on Parliament Street in Toronto’s now desirable Cabbagetown neighborhood. I had resisted writing about House [...]
