News on Greek Food and Cooking

A Guide to Athens

2010-02-26T04:38:15Z

The city of Athens takes it name from Athena, the Greek Goddess of wisdom and knowledge. It seems only fitting then that is also the city that created democracy and where the great thinkers Plato and Aristotle were born. Ancient Greece?s best known templ...

ANASTASIOS HALVERSON KEFI DANCERS

2009-04-21T09:55:51Z

SP_301224_LYTT_GREEKFEST 2 of 3.MELISSA LYTTLE | Times.(02/07/2009 St. Petersburg) Anastasios Halverson, 9, jumps off of a chair and onto a plastic cup during the Pentozali, the trademark folk dance of the island of Crete, which was originally a war dance used to test men's agility, during the Kefi D...

EVELYN SFERIOS BETTY MORGAN BESSIE ADAMS KOURAMBIETHES COOKIES

2009-03-15T02:55:03Z

SCOTT KEELER | Times Left To Right: Evelyn Sferios, (CQ), St. Pete Beach, Betty Morgan, (CQ), St. Petersburg, and Bessie Adams, (CQ), St. Petersburg, all members of St. Stefanos Greek Orthodox Church, St. Pet...

A World of Eats

2010-03-01T16:06:36Z

<div>Americans love to eat out. In fact, research shows that most guys, especially those under 40, order restaurant food at least six times a week. If you exclude burger joints and cafeteria menus from that list, a lot of those meals end up coming from ethnic restaurants, places where you like the food but likely have no idea what's used to make it (bad news if you're trying to keep your diet in check).You could combat the issue o...

Gifts from the Greeks

2010-03-02T06:24:33Z

<div>Lemonia89 Regent's Park Road, London, NW1020 7586 7454Meal for two including wine and service, &amp;#163;65For the past couple of years the family holidays have been spent in Greece, a country with which, gastronomically, I have a love/hate relationship. At first I love it. Then I h...