Searching the Internet for some info on edible flowers, I saw some beautiful pictures of cakes and other fancy desserts decor...

    When I was in college cooking was not my forte so, to save me from eating junk food, my mother would load my freezer with dozens o...

Lying at the head of the Messenian Gulf in southern Greece, Kalamáta is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese. This city is...

      What might characterize our family meals in Greece is the variety of dishes served. Housewives rarely cook only one dish for the ...

Greece is not famous for street food but in cities around the country you will always come across someone either standing by a little g...

Tsatziki may be an all time classic for Greeks but, when we had guests at home, my mother always thought it was too garlicky for every...

Everyone loves the wonderful taste of sun dried tomatoes. When you pick a small jar of them in the super market it is hard to imagine ...

Most of the dishes in agricultural regions were created with a simple rule: use what you have, but not all of your ingredients in one ...

  Vines are probably the only plants in Greece where every part of the plant except the roots are used in cooking.  In May fresh...

     Eggplants and tomato; tomato and feta!  Add some basil or oregano and this chain reaction can give an explosion of taste in your m...

            Eggplants are the basic ingredient of many summer dishes; they make wonderful combinations with tomato, garlic, onion,...

          Mediterranean summers are very hot and heat calls for light meals. In Greece we use many vegetables in our summer cuisine - ...

              Beans are widely used in Greek cuisine. Small ones are used for soups and salads but those bigger in size are ideal for ...

In Greek cuisine, there is a special category of dishes, that we call ‘meze’ or ‘mezedes’ in the plural. Mezedes  are an endless list o...