Toronto is a city made of neighborhoods and many of the immigrants who decided to make this city their new home would often live in among their own people. One such neighborhood is Bloor West Village and although much of Toronto is well-integrated, Bloor West Village still has evidence of old the Ukrainian neighborhood. Interspersed [...]

It’s late Spring, we’re almost officially into Summer and the entertaining season is full-on: Saturday evening dinners, backyard BBQ’s on a lazy Sunday or throwing a party outside simply because it’s just too nice to stay indoors. This salad’s main ingredient is canned artichokes but if you’re so inclined to use fresh ones, you’ll make [...]

Getting married this year? Here’s some resorts in Greece that will convince you to have your honeymoon in Greece Preveza: drop-dead gorgeous Check out this initiative to produce acorn oil and acorn flour from the island of Kea (Tzia) MP Taverna by chef Michael Psilakis opens up in Long Island When Old World becomes New [...]

Which Greek food comes to mind when you think of Greek cuisine? I began writing, cooking, sharing and photographing this blog to show you that Greeks do eat other foods beyond souvlaki. However, we do still eat souvlaki and I still get excited when I taste a well-made souvlaki when dining out.  During my recent [...]

This dish instantly takes me back to Thessaloniki (and Greece) – just this past May. I stayed for about a week at my favourite uncle’s place, “Theo Mitso”. My uncle saved his drachmas, built a wonderful new home in the suburbs and surrounded the family with a lawn, gardens, olive  and varied fruit trees. In [...]

Last year, I was sent an invitation to visit a town in western Macedonia, near Kozani called Siatista. Most towns have one central square but Siatista has about three as the main road spirals up to the acropolis (Mount Grivas). Siatista was an important arena during the struggle for Macedonia (and northern Greece’s) struggle for [...]

Readers of this blog will know that I try use and feature Greek products in my cooking whenever possible. There is still a supply/demand gap here in the West but the situation is improving year by year. In Greece prior to it’s entry into the EU (1981), one would only find local Greek goods and [...]

The Onassis Cultural Centre presents “Stories around the dinner table – The art of food & relationships” Untouched my mass-tourism, Northern Evia is serene, an island and not and island The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival runs from June 9-12th Santorini through the years and wine with Paris Sigalas One of the best aspects of [...]

My visit to Greece this past May consisted of two parts: the first part was spent attending the Sani Gourmet Festival and the second was with family and friends in Thessaloniki. I stayed at my uncle’s house  in Elaiones, a suburb that sits overlooking Thessaloniki on one side and nearby Panorama – still lording high [...]

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