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Stretching from the shores of Turkey to the Ionian Sea east of Italy, the Greek islands have been the crossroads of the Mediterranean since the time of Homer. Over the centuries, Phoenicians, Athenians, Macedonians, Romans, Byzantines, Venetians, Ottoman Turks, and Italians have ruled the islands, putting their distinctive stamp on the food.
Aglaia Kremezi, a frequent contributor to GOURMET and an international authority on Greek food, spent the past eight years collecting the fresh, uncomplicated recipes of the local women, as well as of fishermen, bakers, and farmers. Like all Mediterranean food, these dishes are light and healthful, simple but never plain, and make extensive use of seasonal produce, fresh herbs, and fish. Passed from generation to generation by word of mouth, most have never before been written down. All translate easily to the American home kitchen: Tomato Patties from Santorini; Spaghetti with Lobster from Kithira; Braised Lamb with Artichokes from Chios; Greens and Potato Stew from Crete; Spinach, Leek, and Fennel Pie from Skopelos; Rolled Baklava from Kos.
Illustrated throughout with color photographs of the islanders preparing their specialties and filled with stories of island history and customs, THE FOODS OF THE GREEK ISLANDS is for all cooks and travelers who want to experience this diverse and deeply rooted cuisine firsthand.Amazon.com Review
The food of the Greek Islands, which stretch from the Turkish shore to theeastern Ionian Sea, is simple but packed with flavor. Aglaia Kremezi hasgathered over 150 recipes from these ancient, sunny lands and presentedthem with fascinating historical and cultural notes in The Foods of theGreek Islands, a landmark collection. The dishes she offers, such asSpaghetti with Lobster Sauce, Meatballs with Rice and Herbs in Lemon Broth,and Baked Mixed Vegetables, are as easy to prepare as they are wonderful toeat. Readers long hoping to find authentic recipes for the best Greekcooking, and those who enjoy fine Mediterranean food, should hail thebook.

Beginning with island-by-island food profiles, the book then offerssections on meze, the famed small-dish appetizers; pitas and pies; entrees;seasonal salads; bread; and desserts. Welcome attention is also given tobeans, rice, bulgur, and pastas, and dishes such as White Bean Soup withWild Celery and Lemon, Bulgur with Chicken Liver and Currants, and Pennewith Olive Oil and Toasted Cheese should become everyday andspecial-occasion household favorites. Bread and dessert recipes are equallysatisfying: Kremezi's Olive and Mint Bread and Saffron, Allspice, andPepper Biscuits, among others, will please bakers amateur and pro,while the sweets, based on honey, fruits, nuts, and cheese, are similarlytempting. Illustrated with color photos, and with a comprehensiveingredient glossary, the book is a window on cooking few of us could enjoyuntil its much appreciated arrival. --Arthur Boehm ... Read more

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Great Greek Recipes fromAmazon
A friend recommended this cookbook so I ordered it from Amazon. The recipes are super and many are not complicated, so they are great for an average cook.If you like Greek food, this is the recipe book for you!

Superb Greek Cookbook
My mom was born and raised in a small Greek Village.She's an outstanding cook, and is always in the kitchen.When I gave her this book, she was skeptical that there would be anything she hadn't seen before. But to my delight, she remarked how much
she loves her book and that many of the recipes are the best she has seen in a long time.

No pictures of dishes
My husband LOVES to cook and try different recipes.I bought him this book but he didn't care for it because it has no pictures and he likes to see what the dish is supposed to look like or even to decide whether he wants to try it or not by seeing the picture.
This books gives a lot of Greek culture, he says, but he wasn't interested in that.

FDOODS OF THE GREEK ISLANDS
What a wonderful book! Photographs are beautifully done, and a great selection of authentic recipes too. Would highly recommend this!

Great Food, Confusing Directions
This book is gorgeous, both in the sumptious photos and the stunning layout.The intro is fantastic with its summary of differences in cuisine between the mainland and the various islands, and the glossary in back is extremely helpful.Best of all is the food -- not a bad recipe so far and I've tried vegetables to meat to fish, appetizers to mains.This book has even made me like leafy greens.Braised corfu style, mustard greens and spinach turn out to taste as good as anything on the planet.Once that is, you get past the confusing directions.This book is not for beginning cooks.Even experienced cooks are likely to stumble.For instance, in the recipe for braised greens, the ingredients list calls for 2 large ripe tomatoes or 1 cup canned tomatoes with their juice or 1 cup water.Does this mean you can use fresh tomatoes, canned tomatoes or water, or does it mean that if you use canned tomatoes you can use either the juice they come in or a cup of water?Ambiguities like this abound.Do you know which are the tender stalks on fennel?When making meatballs with rice and herbs in lemon broth, when the recipe says the chicken broth mixture should completely cover the meatballs, what do you do when it doesn't?If you've cooked before you can eventually figure these things out, but it's clear that while the author really knows how to cook, she didn't have a fresh set of eyes and hands try out the recipes.Still, don't be scared away.Everything in here is great.The food tastes fantastic, and the introduction to each dish that sets it in context is wonderful.It never would have ocurred to me to serve greens over polenta with currants and onions.It was quite a wonderful combo, especially when viewed with the intro that says the recipe came from a doctor in Ithaca who considered it a tribute to the people who ate it on cold, winter nights during World War II as they waited for freedom.As long as you can figure out what set polenta ought to look like, you too can enjoy this simple and tasty dish.The food may be traditional but Kremizi gives it a modern take.I use this book alot and know I will discover something new every time.I just wish the directions were more obvious, but I'm getting over it.The food is that good. ... Read more

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This compendium provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the cities founded or refounded in Europe, The Islands, and Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period. Organized coherently in more than 180 entries, it is one of the most significant reference works in the field of Greek history to be completed in the past decade. ... Read more

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Sometimes textbooks aren't too bad...:)
I had to read this book for my Western Civilization class at the University of Florida. I was suprised to find myself, and many of my classmates, actually enjoying what was going on. There are knife fights, protests, and lawlessness abound. Gallant gives many great examples of everything he discusses. I actually learned some interesting stuff, and I think the other people in my class did too. I would recommend reading this if you are interested in Greek culture or just in European culture. It is a good read.

An evenhanded and highly recommended study
Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity, And Power In The British Mediterranean by Thomas W. Gallant (Professor of Greek History, University of Florida) is scholarly and historical survey revealing the anthropological, cultural, and social ramifications of British influence on Greece and the Ionian Islands, especially during the nineteenth century. From legal cases of slander, to the conflicts of religion and identity, and much more, Experiencing Dominion is an evenhanded and highly recommended study of historical events offering a wealth of thoughtful insights into the evolution of Greek and Ionian society.

Insights into the evolution of Greek and Ionian society
Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity, And Power In The British Mediterranean by Thomas W. Gallant (Professor of Greek History, University of Florida) is scholarly and historical survey revealing the anthropological, cultural, and social ramifications of British influence on Greece and the Ionian Islands, especially during the nineteenth century. From legal cases of slander, to the conflicts of religion and identity, and much more, Experiencing Dominion is an evenhanded and highly recommended study of historical events offering a wealth of thoughtful insights into the evolution of Greek and Ionian society. ... Read more

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An American couple retires early, packs their belongings in large trash containers and makes Aegina, a small Greek island, their home.

Their mission is to slow their stressed out lives to a crawl.They fiercely desire to be completely open to the hidden joys of sun, sea and islander.

The plan is to live at the hub of life's frantically spinning wheel of activity and simply observe all.Ironically, they find themselves in a whirlwind of present and past events of the extraordinary island.They interact on all sides with women pirates, Nazi troops, Moslem rulers, taverna pals, kiosk owners, ouzo bottles, sailor dances and the pure joy that transcends past and present.

"Madness" is an extraordinary memoir.It is not the story of dumb Americans becoming Greeks, although the Mayor of Aegina compared the author to Kazantzakis.It is not a travelogue, even though the author writes as perceptively as St. Exupery.That comparison started when Don DePaul's
CATERFLY was compared to the LITTLE PRINCE.

This book is a bare knuckled brawl to find the meaning of life.It is a tribute to people everywhere who struggle heroically to seize transcendence in a dangerous and stressful world.On Aegina the author discovers unexpectedly that the elusive joy he has been seeking is the true treasure of his little island and that bliss often is hiding in the commonplace and "insignificant" that we trip over.


Don DePaul is a inspirational writer.He has published in America, Australia, Israel and Great Britain.His perceptions have been sharpened by his two 100 day solo treks across India, work in the Netherlands and Greece.A lust for travel took him into thirty countries; he has been everywhere from the sewers of Paris to the Himalayan caves.

This author is a master story teller who is everywhere involved in the island tales he tells; and the reader is challenged to dive into the entertaining stories and join him, his wife and island friends in their dance of joyful madness.

Kim Burton
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CHILDREN OF THE CAMBODIAN KILLING FIELDS
Yale Press
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Greek colonization of the Black Sea area is a hotly disputed aspect of the Black Sea archaeology, and the date of the first appearance of Greeks in this part of the ancient world is far from clear. The limited evidence gives little idea of the character of these colonies and their physical appearance. This volume deals with Berezan, the first Greek colony established in the northern Black Sea, thus also the first of a ring of Greek city-states which linked the Western world with the vast steppe territory of the Scythians. For more than 100 years archaeologists from Russia and the Ukraine have been excavating this extraordinary island site. This is a synthesis of their work. It presents the history and archaelology of the site from its establishment in the 7th century BC down to the medieval period. ... Read more

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Comprehensive, scholarly, seminal, engaging, informative.
The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age 3000-800 BC is a fascinating, informative, exceptionally well written presentation of the archaeological record regarding the Ionian Islands at the northwestern fringes of the Aegean world, and the factors that shaped the uniquecultural identity, of their inhabitants in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages.The archaeological evidence drawn from tombs, cemeteries, settlement sites,and artifacts are treated chronologically and thematically, reconstructinga profile of each of the islands and the island region as a whole. Apattern emerges which points to alternating periods provincialism andisolation with those of vitality and openness to long distance connections.A seminal work of impeccable archaeological scholarship, The Ionian Islandsis highly recommended for academic and professional reference collectionsregarding the prehistoric cultures of the Aegean region. ... Read more

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Gary Reger's highly original book applies modern statistical analysis to the detailed inscriptions at the Temple of Apollo on Delos. These inscriptions, discovered during excavations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, provide a wealth of information about the business and economic enterprises of the island from 314 to167 B.C.Reger examines the abundant data from the inscriptions and seeks patterns in the production and use of commodities (olive oil, pigs, firewood, barley, wheat) and in fluctuations in rents for real estate. Linking the island's economic history to the larger political scene, he offers a trenchant and overdue argument for an analysis of the Delian economy as a regional phenomenon, notas others have seen itas a center of international exchange. ... Read more

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The wall paintings from the Cycladic island of Thera have astonished and delighted the archaeological world with the richness of their content and the remarkable state of their preservation. This book sets out to analyse the iconographic details of the miniature paintings, placing each within the broader context of the Aegean world. The book is illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs - the majority of the latter being the author's own close-up studies of details of the paintings. There is also a pull-out in full colour of the freezes so that they may be properly appreciated. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2045 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Intended to provide a comprehensive description of the enterprise of education both within the United States and throughout the world. Articles offer a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice. ... Read more

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Sometimes the only way to find yourself is to leave behind everything you've ever known... and become a stranger.

Abandoning a life filled with loss of family, love, and personal integrity, Doran Seeger is flying through a blinding storm on his way to a political awakening in Amsterdam, an unexpected affair in the Swiss Alps, a brush-by encounter on a train platform and the serendipitous discovery of a wadded up handbill that will lead him into a land where a gleefully absurd culture still embraces real civility: Greece. ... Read more

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Ex-patriot meets Grecian ideals.
Exotic travel commingles with romantic interlude and sweeps iconoclastic Doran Seeger into a whirlwind.The ex-patriot, pessimistic and disillusioned in his demeanor, begins to implore his own self as Grecian culture and romantic love fill his life and perspective. A wonderful summer read.You will surely fall in love with Greece by the end of the novel.You will surely fall in love with the withdrawn stranger, (xenos) by the end of this novel! ... Read more

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The island of Chios is widely believed to be the birthplace of Homer, and has since antiquity been prominent as a wine producer and trading state.Chios flourished under the Venetians and the Turks, and is a major cultural center of Greece today.This book contains twenty-six essays by international scholars on the brilliant history and art of Chios, including discussions of literature and poetry, archaeology, and painting. ... Read more