Migliaccio is a typical dessert of the Carnival. It is part of the Napoli tradition, but it is consumed in all areas of Campania region in Italy. Its recipe has ancient origins and it seems to date back to the Middle Ages. As often happened, it was invented by some peasant woman who was trying...
Euboea or Evia is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. The narrow Euripus Strait separates it from Boeotia in mainland Greece. The narrow Euripus Strait separates it from Boeotia in mainland Greece. In general outline it is a long and narrow island; it is about 180 kilometers long and varies in...
Kaldi was a shepherd in the mountains of Ethiopia. One day he observed that when his goats were eating the seeds of a bush nearby they were becoming more vivid. He picked some of them and took them to a monk. The monk boiled them and drunk the beverage. He realized that it gave him...
Greek pastries were very limited before 1922 when the Greeks of Asia Minor came as refugees in Greece. The country was very poor and the sweets people had, were based on simple ingredients they could find in nature. Some pastry shops that existed in big cities had French inspired sweets that could be enjoyed only...
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! Being a country surrounded by sea and having over 4,000 islands, Greece is very rich in fish and seafood. In ancient ages, Greeks were very fond of fish consumption and they included them in their symposia. Fishing was a big source of richness especially in the...
Τη συνταγή στα ελληνικά θα τη βρείτε στο τέλος της ανάρτησης. As I promised in my previous post, I will tell you today everything about my trip to Nafplio. Nafplio was the first capital of Greece after its liberation from Ottoman Empire. You can check more on its history in my post Chicken Casserole. I...
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! Once upon a time on a sidewalk of a big city there was standing a tree. It was an ugly tree, with withering leaves, completely neglected by people. No birds were singing on its branches and the rays of sun only barely were giving it some...
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! This post was supposed to go live last week, but I faced some serious problems with the stability of the white cream and thus I postponed it for today. At this point, I would like to share with you what happens at the backstage of this...
Η συνταγή και στα ελληνικά στο τέλος της ανάρτησης! I am sure you all have heard about Aesop’s Fables. Aesop was an ancient fable maker and writer. He is considered to be the founder of a specific type of literature called allegory (symbolism). It is worth noticing that not even one of his fables was...
