Ahhh pilafi, that most wonderful of Cretan foods! But if you have to cook it in really large amounts, which would require physical strength, then you need a man…. Of course, it helps to have a good recipe as well.…
Ancient bread- baking method
My new baby, patiently waiting for me. My baby is a replica of a5th century pnigeus, a portable earthenware oven. Its name comes from the verb πνίγω, to choke, strangle. Hippo, a presocratic Greek philosopher, said that the heavens were like the dome of…
Dietary rules for Holy Saturday in the Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents & cumin flavor
According to the “Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents: A Complete Translation of the Surviving Founders’ Typika and Testaments”(1), “In Stoudios [A30], the monks begin the vesper service at the eleventh hour and break their fast when it is concluded with a…
Carnival
Oh yes, this restaurant bill is a handmade carnival costume which took its inspiration from an original bill of 1982. hors-d’œuvres beef, grilled potatoes, mushrooms antipasti coke, gazoza, biral, serum (?!) lettuce salad, tomato, pears fried potatoes, charcoal-grilled potatoes…
Food for the dead (3)
Tsiknopempti, the Thursday of the second week of Greek Carnival (Apokries), is surrounded with the smells and smokes of grilled meat and burning fat. Since it is believed that the souls of the dead are set free and wander among…