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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 • 20:47:26

Meat

A Pheasant on Your Table

I was all prepared to spend this column basting the humble turkey with encomia. After all, the bird with the pop-up thermometer is the one most of us dress for the Christmas table. But Fate intervened in a phone call. It was my friend Vangelis in a culinary quandary.

Meat: How Greeks Prepare It

Greeks enjoy a dubious claim to fame as the EU's largest consumers of red meat, and that in a country, where until just a generation ago meat was an expensive rarity, savored at best once a week, but more likely even less frequently, a few times a month and on holidays.

Recipes

Greek Oysters A Favorite of Gourmets Marinated tuna amd purslane salad A Greek Fish Few Greeks Know Roasted Potatoes A classic greek dish Trahana and Okra Stew Crete at it's best Spinach-feta lasagna The famous lasagna with a Greek twist Vegetable Stew with Okra Nutritius recipe for vegetarians from Crete Ice Cream with Mastic Ice Cream and Mastic blend together forming the most exquisit desert More...

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Zagori: Villages hidden behind mountains

Zagori is an area of great natural beauty and unique architecture in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus in Northwestern Greece. The area is of about 1.000 square kilometers and contains 46 villages. Zagoria villages is called by Greeks “Zagorochoria” meaning the villages behind the mountain.