…is actually a tart, very popular in urban areas of Chania (Crete) during the 1980’s. It was never called a tart, though. At that time there have been two major waves of foreign influence in Greek food: the French and…
GREEK CHRISTMAS IN MAGNA GRECIA, 1945
In December of 1945, four months after the end of the 2nd World war, a New Zealand military ship called Mataroa (“Woman with large eyes” in Maori) sailed from Piraeus to Taranto, carrying more than 150 young Greeks. From there…
CRETAN FOOD MARKETS
Ηeraklion Cretan cheese and yogurt are made with the milk of goat or/ and sheep. Cow milk is never used in their production. Jeladhia, a jelly made with the head and the feet of the pig used to…
LOVE, INVINCIBLE IN BATTLE…
“In truth at first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundation of al the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest…
ON A COLD WINTER NIGHT…
….walnuts and thyme honey. (Photo credit: Mariana Kavroulaki)