Articles tagged with: Cyclades

Tastes from Greek Island Religious Festival Cooking

Thursday, 28 July 2016. Christina Tsamoura

Tastes from Greek Island Religious Festival Cooking

A remote chapel that comes alive but once a year on the festival of its Saint, a monastery which breaks its otherworldly silence to welcome the worldly hustle and bustle in celebration, the main church of a small village that celebrates its protector...Wherever anyone has lived the experience of an island festival, they know that in its large pots, a very special chapter of Greek traditional cuisine is being written...

Mykonos-Referencing Meze

Friday, 15 July 2016.

Mykonos-Referencing Meze

Sunday, July 17 & Sunday, July 24 2016 at Cine Manto / Cafe Manto garden, at 11:30 in the morning.
As part of our summertime events, the Gastronomy Club of Mykonos - an open group of people supporting the culture of good food, taste and delight- asked cooks of the island to present an assortment of meze combining traditional and modern perspectives.

Sesame Sweet: Making Pasteli in Amorgos

Saturday, 23 July 2016.

Sesame Sweet: Making Pasteli in Amorgos

George Vassalos is a beekeeper, farmer, master distiller. He lives in Lagkada, in the center of Amorgos, at the southern end of the Cyclades, and which was made famous by the movie Le Grand Bleu (1988). We were lucky enough to be at his farm recently when he made pasteli using his own thyme honey and sesame grown in Chalkidiki.