70 Greek recipes.
70 photos of the Greek gastronomy.
It’s love at first sight but first comes the camera and then the recipe.
Her grandmother and mother taught her how to cook and now its time for you to Cook like
a Greek.
Cook like a Greek with the help of a 70 recipes for main courses, Appetizers,
H’orderves, Snacks and Party Dishes , Salads and Sweets, finally gives you an aswer to the
daily question of your life, “what to cook for lunch , for the kids, for dinner”?
A fresh look and perspective in the greek gastronomy, the book “Cook like a Greek” will
teach you to cook delicious dishes using great, cheap and seasonal ingredients!
Bon appetit!
Greek cuisine for me, is love at first bite. Everything happening around a magic, superb kitchen, starting with a grandmother who has her arms open for her grandchildren and delicious scents that spread in to the house. Grabbing snacks from her kitchen on the way to school was like bringing a piece of our home together with me. Something so intimate, so lovely, so heartwarming. This was my comfort food.
Greek food has all the properties of comfort food, it’s food and medicine together and at it’s base stands the olive oil which improves all people’s health. Cooking for friends and family is not only an obligation. It’s giving back, it’s love and joy. Feed your soul sharing good food with those you love. I adore the Greek gastronomy because what it gives me back is love, it is a proper diet with rich flavors. I started cooking very timidly at first. My teacher, who was my grandmother was never strict, but it was really challenging for me to cook in her kitchen. At the age of 15 I was the assistant of the wonderful brunches at her house. I was part of a group that scheduled the brunch event in every single detail, two weeks before it happened.
She would double-check all the linens to be properly ironed and cleaned, the silverware polished, set the menu according to seasonality and availability of fresh vegetables, meat and fish. 2 days before brunch the kitchen was becoming a vibrant and fragrant food festival. And yet everywhere she would always stick to her program and absolute respect for seasonality. This is the biggest inspiration and challenge for a creative cuisine. Counting seasons by the fruits and vegetables and every year trying to bring a new flavor, a new course, a new form using them. And at some point the roles changed and I had the leading role in her kitchen. In her kingdom. I touched her culinary respectfully. The casseroles, the pans, the dishes (my God!) her platters. There would never be a negative criticism from her on my cooking skills when I was a beginner. I just knew. I knew that when she had eaten the last bite and she had that smile with her last sip of wine. I knew that I did it!
Cooking is an art. The materials you choose, how you respect their seasonality, how you food-style your plate, how you offer it. I can not imagine my kitchen without color, without the music of my pots. I can not imagine someone entering a kitchen smelling a delicious sauce and not smiling. We have dismissed from our minds how it is to eat together. During a crazy routine it only takes one hour. One hour to cook something magic, to relax and to share. Cooking is a therapy. And if you use appropriate materials, it is an intensive healing balm.
Maria Panagou
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