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"The most precious thing in the universe is life, and whatever lives has need of food", Brilla Savarin
 


300 Traditional Recipes

This book is a valuable helpmate and a source of inspiration for the contemporary homemaker. In it you will find not only hundreds of tasty recipes, but coordinated suggestions for delightful, impressive menus, a feast of main dishes and luscious dessert ideas, with step-by-step instructions so that you can cook them easily and correctly, and work real miracles in your kitchen.


Meze by Diane Kochilas

Now you can enjoy the food and fun of a meze feast. Meze, the small plates of just about everything from seafood, meat, and vegetables to handheld pies, colorful salads, nuts, olives, and cheeses, is the food of hospitality and conviviality, food meant to be shared with friends and family and savored with wines and spirits.
 


The Foods of the Greek Islands

With recipes from Molyvos, New York's acclaimed Greek restaurant. Stretching from the shores of Turkey to the Ionian Sea east of Italy, the Greek islands have been the crossroads of the Mediterranean since the time of Homer and boast some of the most intriguing food in the world. Simple but never plain, the cooking of the islands relies on flavorful ingredients rather than complicated techniques.


The Festive Fast cookbook

Greek Meatless Cooking in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition.


Wedding Days

An invitation to those who appreciate fine cooking, innovative ideas, and modern design! From the marriage proposal to the big day, Wedding Days offers help and organization for all the festivities, while the unique meal creations induce a festival of the senses.


Cat Cora's kitchen

Born to embark on this culinary adventure, Cat is an acclaimed chef raised by Greek restauranteurs in Jackson, Miss. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, she's worked with top chefs in New York, Napa Valley, San Francisco and France, and studied with two of France's three-star Michelin chefs.


The Olive and The Caper

In this vibrant cookbook, Susanna Hoffman marries respect for tradition with a keen spirit of innovation to celebrate all things Greek. Devoted to food, filled with the passion and voices of people she's lived and cooked with for the past thirty years, The Olive and The Caper is a collection of 250 recipes that are simply and utterly glorious.


Secrets of Fat-Free Greek Cooking

The art of Greek cooking offers an abundance of aromas, colors, and flavors based upon a purity and simplicity that have remained practically unchanged throughout the centuries. Secrets of Fat - Free Greek Cooking not only reveals how to cook authentic Greek dishes, it also tells you how to maximize their nutritional benefits.


The Philosopher's Kitchen

Recipes from Ancient Greece and Rome For the Modern Cook. "Pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily," said the Greek philosopher Epicurus two thousand years ago. Certainly the dazzlingly varied, subtly seasoned cuisine of ancient Greece and Rome measured up to the highest standards of eating pleasure. The Philosopher's Kitchen offers seductive, modern interpretations of these dishes rediscovered in a variety of sources, from writings by Plato, Aristotle, Homer, and Cicero to the oldest known surviving cookbook.


Nosthimia! The Greek American Family Cookbook

Written by Greek-American chef Georgia Sarianides, Nosthimia! The Greek American Family Cookbook introduces Americans to Greek cuisine in a fun and engaging way. Georgia plans meals that are healthy and don’t require hours in the kitchen. She emphasizes the use of fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, and olive oil, all healthy and delicious.


Politiki Kouzina the Cookbook in Greek

Politiki Kouzina is a one-of-a-kind book dedicated to the history of Greek Cuisine in cosmopolitan Constantinople (refered to as the "Poli"). The book invites the reader to explore 2000 years of Constantinople's Greek culinary history. It includes 250 traditional recipes.


The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook

The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook explores the secrets known for centuries on the island of Crete of a traditional diet that seamlessly combines good nutrition with extraordinary gastronomic pleasure. Physician and nutrition specialist Jacques Fricker teams up with chef and health writer Dominique Laty to explain the benefits of the "Mediterranean Diet" and the subtle alchemy it achieves through balanced nutrition and a healthful lifestyle.


Salonika A Family Cookbook

Cherished recipes from the Ma'min, Ottoman Muslims with Jewish decendents who lived in what is now Greece and Turkey. Home cooking provides a fascinating, intimate look at a society that vanished in World War I. Eloquent social commentary and very accessible recipes. Charming turn-of-the-century photos and line drawings. 


West Cretan Cooking

This preserves traditional Cretan recipes and takes its shape from the island's rich history and diverse landscape. This healthy and delicious diet has touched Romans, Jews, Venetians, Ottomans and modern Greeks providing each with good health and long life spans. By recording and commenting on dishes that remained typical of Crete until the 1960's, Nicholas Stavroulakis links the modern reader with these past inhabitants of a bitter yet extravagantly nourishing land.


Greek Cookery and Wines

A luxury edition which takes us into the magical world of Greek cuisine with traditional recipes, local specialities, pastries, wines, and other beverages, from all the areas of Greece and Cyprus, each recipe with the estimated number of calories.

Olive Oil

Olive oil source of life

"Olive Oil - source of life"
a unique gift by nature that has something more than just ingredients ... life itself.


The Greek Vegetarian

In The Greek Vegetarian, Diane Kochilas demonstrates both the breadth and wealth of Greek vegetarian cooking. Her talent in researching classic and traditional Greek recipes and adapting them to today's leaner, more modern kitchen is apparent in this cornucopia of recipes. Uncompromising in flavor, they will appeal to home cooks looking for imaginative ways to prepare healthy foods. Included in The Greek Vegetarian are recipes for cold and warm mezes, salads both raw and cooked, pastas and grains, stews and one pot dishes, baked vegetable and bean specialties, stuffed vegetables, soups, savory pies and basic breads, and dishes that feature eggs.


The Food and Wine of Greece


More than 300 classic and modern dishes from the mainland and islands of Greece. Diane Kochilas spend more than fifteen years living and traveling in Greece. There she gathered recipes from home cookbooks and professional chefs coaxing a wonderful array of authentic recipes as a result.


Cookbook of the Jews of Greece


Greek Jewish cooking is the product of Jewish life in four great empires. The Jews have lived in Greece for over 2,000 years as one succeeded another: the Alexandrine, the Roman, the Byzantine, and the Ottoman.
The recipes for the Cookbook of the Jews of Greece were painstakingly gathered from these survivors in retirement homes and family homes throughout Greece by the director of the Jewish Museum of Greece, Nicholas Stavroulakis. He has brought his own varied background to bear on the cookbook’s creation.


Alexiadou Alexia - Cooking a Love Affair

COOKING : A LOVE AFFAIR
Alexia Alexiadou likens the pleasure of eating to the exhilaration of falling in love - all the senses are involved. A best seller in Greece, her book offers a medley of international recipes for romantic dinner meals that can last till morning. Alexiadou encourages creativity: "Don't be afraid to play with flavors and your kitchen will always be erotic, unique and original," she says. She even provides occasional menus for all seasons, like the "Exotic Summer" menu and the "Black Tie Dinner for Eight." With recipes such as "Pheasant with Mushrooms and Chestnuts" or "Salmon Coulibiac," you are certain to fall in love with cooking. (English Edition)

Alexiadou Vefa Greek Pastries and Desserts
Entertaining at home, whether the occasion be formal or casual, is a breeze with the help of this incredible partly planner. Drawn from Greek and international cuisine, the 200 original recipes in this deluxe full-color edition are elegantly presented in 19 special occasion menus.

More than just a cookbook, this veritable treasure chest of the culinary arts is designed to guide you through the intricacies of wine service, napkin folding, table settings, garnishes and creative decorations.
Festive Cuisine brilliantly blends imagination with the senses into a coherent aesthetic whole.
In this, her third cookbook to be published in English, Vefa Alexiadou once again demonstrates with world-class style that gracious dining and entertaining are far from being a thing of the past.

Alexiadou Vefa Greek Cuisine
Vefa Alexiadou through her books and TV programs has taught hundreds of thousands of Greek women their heritage of traditional Greek cookery. Once handed down verbally from mother to daughter, today’s generation of Greek women looks to “Vefa”, as she is affectionately called, to assume that role for them. Now, translated into English, you can learn the secrets of authentic Greek home cooking from his popular Greek cooking teacher.
Vefa Alexiadou is also a professional chemist, and combines her practical experience as a lifetime home cook with scientific principles. Her recipes have the true flavor of Greek home cooking.

Alexiadou Vefa Greek Pastries and Desserts
Vefa Alexiadou through her books and TV programs has taught hundreds of thousands of Greek women their heritage of traditional Greek cookery. Once handed down verbally from mother to daughter, today’s generation of Greek women looks to “Vefa”, as she is affectionately called, to assume that role for them. Now, translated into English, you can learn the secrets of authentic Greek home cooking from his popular Greek cooking teacher.
Vefa Alexiadou is also a professional chemist, and combines her practical experience as a lifetime home cook with scientific principles. Her recipes have the true flavor of Greek home cooking.

Alexiadou Vefa Sunny Mediterranean Cuisine
Sunny Mediterranean Cuisine

The recipes in this book utilise the bountiful ingredients found in the sunny Mediterranean of today. Most of the dishes are in a traditonal vein, while others represent either modern adaptions or completely new ways of using "old" foods.
Vegans will appreciate the easy-to-preoare vegetable, legume, pasta and soya dishes. For those who believe a healthy diet should also contain animal-derived protein, a large number of fish and seafood recipes are included. Also at the beginning of each chapter you will find an introduction with historical and nutritional information as well as advises for using the ingredients focused on that section.

This beautiful cookbook will be appreciated by anyone seeking healthy alternatives for the family diet.

The Lenten Collection
Welcome to the Lenten Collection! This book was published at the suggestion of His Grace Bishop Methodios of Boston with the hope that it will be a helpful source and guide in the preparation of Lenten meals. Proceeds from the sale of this book will be used to support the philanthropic ministries of the Diocese of Boston.
To accommodate the various fasting periods in the church calendar, this collection of over 450 recipes includes strict-fast recipes as well as choices for fasting days which allow fish and dairy products. A Table of Fasting Days (located on the following page) is included as a guide for selecting appropriate recipes for all types of fasting days throughout the year.
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