Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! Sesame production is as old as that of rice, approximately 6,000 years ago. It was cultivated in Palestine and Syria around 3,000 B.C. All countries around the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East considered sesame to be a produce of high energy and therapeutic values for human...
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! Adonis, son of Smyrna and her father king of Syria Theias, came out of the myrrh tree his mother was transformed by gods so as not to be killed by her father. Aphrodite fell in love with the newborn and entrusted his upbringing to Persephone. Persephone...
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης. Pistacia lentiscus or mastic tree is, according to Wikipedia, a dioeciously evergreen shrub or small tree of the pistacio genus growing up to 4 m tall which is cultivated for its aromatic resin, mainly on the Greek island of Chios. Mastic trees are the Chios’ trademark...
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! This past weekend I was in Nafplio. There was a conference on alternative forms of tourism, that being, agricultural, gastronomical, hiking/biking/walking etc. I was invited to speak about gastronomical tourism in Greece and in other countries of the Mediterranean. There was a lot of site seeing...
Recently I participated in a Greek cooking show called Chef on Air. I cooked a fish dish there for which I am going to tell you all about in my next post. In between shootings I had the chance to meet a young, promising pastry chef from Thessaloniki Alexandros Alexiou. He was a very kind,...
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! Ancient myth says that Evristheas the king of Tyrinth ordered Hercules to go and bring him the golden apples of Hesperides. These trees were given to Hera as a marital gift from Gaia (earth) when she married Zeus and she planted them in the garden of...
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! Tomorrow is my Name Day. In Greece Name Days are even more important than birthdays. If you want to learn more about this tradition you can check here. In the old days people used to visit the person whom his/her name was celebrating and wish him/her...
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! The first chills have already made their appearance here and I started storing my summer clothes away and bringing the fall/winter ones in my closets. October is a beautiful month because it is my mother’s birthday and my father’s Name Day. So, we have plenty to...
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! Once upon a time, there was a beautiful, twiggy tree with delicious, sweet, red fruits. Everyone passing by stopped and admired its beauty. The tree, enjoying all this admiration, started bragging about itself and became arrogant. Slowly, slowly it started thinking of how it could bind...
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! The first testimonies regarding ice cream fall very much behind time in the depths of Asia and most particularly in China. Ice cream was first produced there around 2000 BC from slightly boiled rice, herbs and milk that were left on snow to coagulate. The most...
