Yogurt (Yaourti)

November 7, 2010

Yogurt was once considered a rather exotic food from the Middle East, and it wasn’t that common in grocery stores (except for ethnic markets). I didn’t always like yogurt. When I was growing up, it was always in the fridge because my mother made it herself and my Papou especially liked it. I would see [...]

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It’s been too long!

October 5, 2010

Wow. I know…months have gone by since I last posted anything but it has been on my mind ever since. I just couldn’t seem to get here. You know how life can get in the way sometimes of your best intentions?! I still keep asking myself, where did the time go? How is it October? [...]

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We did it!

May 24, 2010

We just returned from Long Beach Airport where we said “good-bye” to Georgia and Floyd after 8 weeks of concentrated effort on our cookbook. It paid off cause we actually FINISHED it! WHEW!! We still have to decide about photos, but the text with recipes is complete as well as the size we want the [...]

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We are re-living our trips to Greece!

April 23, 2010

Wow, it’s been a month since I last wrote. That’s because Jo and I have been working like madwomen on our cookbook/travel book. We have been reliving our trips to Greece, just reading about the different excursions we took, the people we talked with, the incredible food we ate…it’s all in the book… EVERYTHING! From [...]

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“Hi Mom, I have a question…”

March 22, 2010

Last night my son, Jeb, called and said, “I just thought of something I haven’t had for a long time.I’d like to know what it is and how soon you can make it. It’s a grain, I think, and it is served in a paper cup and it has those little silver balls mixed into it. [...]

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Cookbook Editor

March 7, 2010

YAY! My sister, Jo, in Vermont,  had lunch the other day with a cook book editor who recently moved to her town. She graciously listened to our “plan” for our cookbook and offered some great pointers on publishing. After listening to all that is involved in that process and that a publisher can rearrange, change, [...]

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Those Greeks “have a different word for everything!”

February 24, 2010

OK! I’m borrowing from Steve Martin’s quote about the French, but I’ll explain. Sometimes there  is a word in Greek (or any other language) that just won’t translate into English. You can get close but never quite hit it. The word we have the most trouble with is “kefi”. In my Greek-American dictionary, it translates as [...]

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Hangover???

January 31, 2010

Aside from the things we learned while traveling in Greece, we had fun uncovering some “little known secrets” (to us, at least). One cookbook had wonderful historical (and hysterical) information of ancient Greece with many of its recipes. Who knew that eating cabbage before a night of wild drinking (even in the 6th century B.C.) [...]

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Yassou!

January 9, 2010

A New Year and a New Beginning A cliche, perhaps, but real just the same. This is the year we hope to finally finish our Greek cookbook. Who are ‘we’? My sister and I are Greek Americans who have visited Greece with our husbands numbers of times and decided, on our second visit, that we should [...]

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