Large numbers of pig carcasses are hanging on hooks in butcher shops. Christmas day is near…. Because the pig is the traditional meat for the most regions in Greece. And the days before and after Christmas is the peak of…
MAGEIROS, The sacrifice & the cuisine.
“Mageiros” in Greek means cook (the) and “mageirevo” I cook. One of earliest attestations of the word is a dedicative inscription by a mageiros in Epidavros (early 5th century, IG, IV2, I.144). However, the mageiros was not primarily a cook but…