Greek Cookbook

Try Vefa Alexiadou's cookbooks. A chemist turned cookbook writer, she is to Greece what Julia Child is to America.

Diane Kochilas has written two good cookbooks on Greece.

Very much worth reading and cooking from.

Phil

We have used The Flavors of Greece by Rosemary Barron (Morrow, 1991) for quite a while and recommend it highly. :cool:

Mike

I'll have to look at the books suggested; the ones I have aren't very good. But there is one exception: a Greek Orthodox Church cookbook. That has great recipes! Granted, some of them are more "immigrant Greek" (as Italian-American cookbooks sometimes are), but the food is the home-cook stuff I remember my Greek neighbors making. The neighbor's mother (we called her Yaya- Grandmother) made some excellent rice dishes and worked magic with zucchini, eggplant and tomatoes. Then there were the phyllo-based dishes- :lips: !

Culinaria Greece

Hello,
I live in crete, am not greek but have tons of greek in laws... I was offered 'Culinaria Greece-editor Konemann'... since I live here, to me this is the closest you will ever get to authentic greek cuisine! It is a beautiful book separated by regions, islands, etc and shows each different type of cuisine used in greece. For someone who wants to get into greek cuisine, this might be the book...