Wednesday, November 1, 2017

And this is how you pick persimmons!



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All the rage!

In the beginning, only Tourkenli Bakery specialized in braided challah-type ‎loaves with chocolate frosting -- now everybody's doing it in various colors.

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Monday, October 23, 2017

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Kavourma Saghanaki




At "Karamanlidhika tou Fani" -- this amazing restaurant in the market district downtown Athens, specializes in cured meats.



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Friday, October 20, 2017

Amazing fish soup



at the Epirus restaurant in the market area of downtown Athens -- opa!


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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Vería "revani"

"Revani" is a syrupy cake‎ and Vería specialty -- this beautiful store has been baking and selling it since 1886!

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Modern meat market

Descriptions of all the "prepared" meats/dishes you can purchase at various meat markets...ready to go into the pan or oven.

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Sunday, October 1, 2017

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Naousa wedding feast...

And these are just the appetizers. (Weddings like ‎this the exception, not the norm by far in "austerity" weakened Greece. Lots of couples just either don't get married or do a simple "civil" ceremony..)

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Thursday, September 28, 2017

"Mixed" patsa in Katerini!

Delicious tripe soup with various boiled meat parts mixed in...

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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

This is the life!

Beautiful stewed chick pea dish at ___ in downtown Thessaloniki. Vergina beer -- brewed in Kommotini ( ‎western Thrace) -- is the ONLY beer now only solely owned by Greeks.

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My kind of store

This Thessaloniki store specializes in "pastourma," a dried beef with a (heavy on the garlic) spice coating -- eaten in thin slices, perfect with ouzo!

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Tomatokeftedes!

Vegetarian patties with tomatoes, etc. -- very tasty!

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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Nothing like fresh vegetables...

Sold at the weekly open market by the "paragogos" (producer).

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Sunday, September 10, 2017

"Ek mek"

I try to stay away from these deserts!

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Saturday, September 9, 2017

Sunday, May 7, 2017

"Kokoretsi" (Orma, Pellis)

Barbecued offals wrapped in intestines, another acquired taste perhaps!  

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Another Pontian treat, special order!

This is korkota (broken baked corn pieces) cooked with "black cabbage" -- one of my all-time favorites and made by Eleni Papadopoulou '69, a former Girls School‎ student of mine who lives in Rodohori (near Naousa).

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Pontian treat -- piraskia (think fried cheese pies)



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Monday, February 27, 2017