Food & Drink
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Food ideas to reduce the bulge after Christmas feasting
With the Christmas festivities and feasting over, it is perhaps time to reverse the effects of our indulgence in rich food. It is also summer and a good time to …
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RECIPE: Vasilopita with Chocolate Ganache from Sweet Greek’s Kathy Tsaples
New Year’s Eve is fast approaching, which means it is almost vasilopita time. Kathy Tsaples, founder of Sweet Greek, has generously shared a particularly special vasilopita recipe with a chocolate …
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Denise’s perfected recipe for keftedes
This keftedes recipe was inspired by many different online recipes and perfected by myself and my partner! Coming from a Greek background, we have both always loved eating Greek food …
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At a Greek Christmas the table groans with a rich and varied fare
Christmas in Greece does not have the carry the same religious weigh as Easter. The Greek festive season, which lasts from 30 November to 6 January, is a time for …
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Greek Christmas food traditions: Christopsomo
Christopsomo means ‘Christ’s Bread’. Made a few days before Christmas, the sacred tradition dates back hundreds of years. Legend says that preparing this bread as a Christmas treat is linked …
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Greek Australians make the best tsipouro in the world
When four years ago, Anastasios (Tom) Christopoulos announced to his wife Anna and his three children his plan to produce his own tsipouro, in Australia, never in his wildest …
The story behind kourabiedes
The myth tells us that during the Ottoman rule all kourabiedes had to be made into the crescent shape and therefore 250 years later that shape still predominates. In Turkish …
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Ellenie Vasilopoulos shares her yiayia’s samali recipe
I always remember visiting my yiayia Eleni’s house in my childhood and she would always have a selection of traditional Greek cakes which she would have made the night before …
Choice of hampers that will send you on a gourmet journey to Hellas
“Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes” is a Latin phrase that means “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts” The words, from Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, that were uttered by a Trojan, but would …
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PRONIA to publish the first ever cookbook exclusively from 1st generation Greeks in Melbourne
PRONIA invites Greeks from Melbourne’s western region to participate in its new project, a unique collection that highlights the traditional recipes passed on by first generation Greeks. This new cookbook, …