Diane Kochilas

2011 Greek Christmas Gift Guide + Two Book Giveaways!!

Nov 25th, 2011 | By
2011 Greek Christmas Gift Guide + Two Book Giveaways!!

Christmas is less than a month away and it’s time to get shopping and buy those presents for those important in your life. Much like last year, I’ve compiled a selection of gifts that would interest the Greek in your life or the philhellene. There’s something for everybody here and gift ideas that suit all [...]



Estiatorio Volos

Jul 14th, 2011 | By
Estiatorio Volos

Torontonians know and love The Danforth for the string of Greek restaurants, cafés and bakeries that line Danforth Road and spill out on Pape Avenue. Next month the Taste of the Danforth opens up the streets and shop fronts and over a million people pass through Toronto’s Greektown to sample the best of what the [...]



Flavours of Northern Greece: A Culinary Journey

Feb 23rd, 2011 | By
Flavours of Northern Greece: A Culinary Journey

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, [...]



Cooking With Diane Kochilas on Ikaria

Feb 15th, 2011 | By
Cooking With Diane Kochilas on Ikaria

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 [...]



Good Things Happenin’

Jan 23rd, 2011 | By
Good Things Happenin’

Chalk this week and being pretty damn good: I attended a reception at the residence of the Consul General of Greece here in Toronto to meet and have a conversation with the new Greek Ambassador to Canada, His Excellency Eleftherios Angellopoulos. I was delighted to be invited among other Greeks in the city who conduct [...]