Ladadika District of Thessaloniki & Beyond
This past summer while in Greece, I finally got to enjoy and explore my favourite Greek city, Thessaloniki in September, when the temperatures finally dropped to a comfortable level. That period was in September and it’s a wonderful time to visit Thessaloniki. The city is Greece’s second largest city with a population of about 1.5 […]
Greek Food Gazette 15/11/2013
Pick-up my Everything Mediterranean cookbook this weekend at the Toronto Gourmet Food & Wine show at the Nisos Importing kiosk (#728) Ten reasons to visit Greece in 2014 Kritamos Fish House on Toronto’s Danforth gets a new chef Larissa makes the shortlist for Green Capital 2016 Greek restaurants in Berlin fulfilling their own diplomatic mission […]
Kalofagas Cooks at Chicago’s Avli Restaurant
I’m delighted to announce that I will be traveling to Chicago to cook at Chicago’s Avli Estiatorio (restaurant), located just north of the city in Winnetka. Proprietor Louie Alexakis and I have come up with a menu that will showcase dishes from my repertoire and some from the kitchens of Avli. I’m also pleased to […]
Seared Lemon Salmon With Green Beans and Bulgur
When I’m in Greece, I notice lots of folks there buying and eating salmon, even though it comes from Norway and Greeks have a wide array of small, medium and large fish from Mediterranean waters. When in Greece, I don’t eat salmon but now that I am back in Canada, we have plenty of wild […]
Reliving the Dream in Oia, Santorini
This past summer I had the pleasure of visiting Santorini, the “jewel of the Mediterranean” and this was my second to the island with the first one being back in 1988. During my stay on the island, I was always asked if this was my first time and I told whoever asked me about my […]
Let’s Eat, Massalia, Nea Fokea
One day, on the way back from a day at the beach near Paliouri, Halkidiki, we headed back up the peninsula of Kassandra and stopped in at Nea Fokea, a town just south of Nea Potidea. Nea Fokea is one of the older towns in Halkidiki and it’s where Massalia is located. Massalia is the […]
Kritamos on the Danforth
Toronto’s Greektown aka The Danforth has been a street in transition and it sorely needed to have injection of fresh, new Greek eating establishments. Enter Kritamos, located on the south side of the Danforth, between Chester and Logan. Kritamos was opened by Brian Li and he’s brought Chef Kypros Soteriou (Mandolin Aegean Bistro in Miami) […]
Best of Greek Food 2013
I’m back from Greece and I return with lots of fond memories of my vacation spent with family and friends. In the coming days, weeks, months you will read of the places I visited, read of my favourite destinations and delight in the food and recipes I’ve brought back from Greece. While in Greece, I […]
Pilgrimage to Inner Mani
I believe that every Greek should visit each corner of Greece, get to know/understand where other Greeks came from, learn their story and see their patrida from their perspective. My family is from towns in Florina, that’s northern Greece and less than an hour away from Greece’s border from former Yugoslavia. Place your finger on […]
Grilled Butterflied Whiting With Lemon & Oregano
Time and time again while visiting Greece, I love visiting the markets with all the fresh fruits and vegetables, listening to the butchers tout their meats and inspecting the catch of the day at the fish and seafood shops. Unlike in North America where the norm is to view and purchase filleted fish, here in […]