Snails, Artichoke, Carrot and Fresh Pea Stew

Delicate hearts hidden behind thorny leaves (the Cretan spiny artichokes) ~ fresh tender peas ~ sweet carrots ~ scallions and fresh garlic ~ wild fennel:a telltale sign that spring has arrived.
Pair with snails and you’ll have a great dish

Best thing on a cold night: trachana soup

Cold nights call for a warm bowl of trachanas soup, rich and satisfying.
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A box of ganache cubes

Ganache is not just an easy chocolate sauce...
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Watch this video to see how to make and decorate a traditional New year bread- pie from Attica / Greece
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Pumpkin recipes with a twist

Anchovies served over a small bed of pumpkin slices and pastry triangles filled with pumpkin cream.

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Salepi

Sahlep is a wonderful anditote to cold days and nights.
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Before the (male) chef became a chef, he was....

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A Lavender - Cumin Cake for Love

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How was meat preserved in Byzantine times? Salting was the most common technique. Salt was also used in conjunction with sun–drying and, less frequently, with smoking. The basic recipe of apaki (Byzantine salted and -optionally- smoked lean pork)can be made in three http://www.historyofgreekfood.org/?p=2773"variations".

Xinohondros- a fermented milk/cereal mixture

The combination of ground cereal grains and milk or yogurt to produce a highly nutritious, storable foodstuff is a common practice among the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean.

There are two Cretan variations under this category: xinochondros (sour ground wheat) which is the boiled mixture of fermented goat’s or /and sheep’s milk and “chondros” and galochondros (milk-ground wheat) which consists of fresh unfermented milk and chondros.

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Food and memory

as Marcel Proust http://www.historyofgreekfood.org/?p=2611"wrote" in Remembrance of Things Past “…when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest;

After the 1st Symposium of Greek Gastronomy

It is more than three weeks that the 1st of the Symposia on Greek Gastronomy is over but since I can say that it went very well, I wanted to share some thoughts on it …
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