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…
FOOD FESTIVALS
In the recent years there is an annual festival for almost every food, be it chestnuts, strawberries, cherries, pies, anchovies, snails etc. Villages and towns promote the food festivals as a celebration of their local products and culinary tradition, both worth…
LENTEN FAST- EASTER FEAST: ALMOST AN ALPHABET
Angel hair soup: with angel hair pasta, chopped potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, onions, lentils, bay leaf, without olive oil. It is eaten during Good Friday. Bacaliaros, salt cod: once an inexpensive food but now it is a luxury. It is prepared in many ways and is the…
ADMIRAL’S MIAOULIS SEA BASS …
In brief: “Greece became independent in the early 1830s, after a prolonged war of liberation/secession from the Ottoman empire. Like the contemporaneous revolts of the Carbonari in Italy and France (1820, 1821) and the victorious uprising of the anti-monarchist Spaniards…
FISH ROE
Τhough I was raised in a non religious middle class family, the consumption of special Lenten foods didn’t differ from other middle class housholds, apart from the fact that it had to do with folk rituals rather than religion. When I was a child, crab meat, black caviar,…