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Selected traditional and regional Greek food recipes along with reflections relating to the culinary practices, customs, facts, and history of Greek cookery and gastronomy.

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• Loukoumades, The Ancient Olympic Treat (Λουκουμάδες)

  Posted on Saturday August 9th, 2008 at 17:03 in ancient, dessert, loukoumades, olympic games

  The official ancient Olympic doughnut - Click to Enlarge Image The Olympic HymnAncient immortal spirit, pure father Of the beautiful, the great and the true, Descend, ...

• The Apple in My Pie (Milopita - Μηλόπιτα)

  Posted on Saturday July 5th, 2008 at 15:39 in ancient, apple, atalanta, athena, atlas, helen aphrodite, hera, hercules, milopita, mythology, paris, troy

  My Milopita fresh from the oven - Click Image to Enlarge Apples are among the earliest fruits known to Europeans. The ancient Greeks have left us numerous references to the apple both in literary and...

• Pythagoras Was NOT a Vegetarian!

  Posted on Saturday June 28th, 2008 at 20:05 in ancient, pythagoras, vegetarian

  The evidence in black and white, Latin and Greek - Click to Enlarge Image ...

• Rizogalo

  Posted on Monday April 7th, 2008 at 20:27 in ancient, citrus, dessert, history, pudding, rice

  Rizogalo... my Greek rice pudding recipe in all its glory Rice has been known and consumed in Greece since ancient times. The first mention I could find in the historiography is a reference to one o...

• 23 Almonds a Day Keep the Doctors Away

  Posted on Wednesday February 6th, 2008 at 02:03 in almond, ancient, corfu, dessert, gastronomy, greece, greek, kerkyra, recipe

• The Path of Least Resistance

  Posted on Saturday February 2nd, 2008 at 23:43 in ancient, gastronomy, glutton, greece, greek, mythology, philosophy