10 minutes Super easy . Recipes take me back. Amazon Price There was a problem loading your book clubs. It's not a book I would pick for myself - thinking it pretentious, snooty and a bit expensive (at $35) for a cookbook. All these recipes are tried, tested and perfectly adapted for quick and easy home cooking. Without the pretense, there is some good food here. I was even MORE disappointed to see how far her interpretations diverged from the texts that WERE given and the number of dishes that were not from antiquity, but merely inspired by something fairly random. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Does this book contain inappropriate content? The Philosopher's Kitchen: Recipes from Ancient Greece and Rome for the Modern Cook, Great Entertaining Source and Fun Foodie Read, Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2004. This is one of the most complete books of traditional Greek desserts ever published. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. If you love richness and splendor of Greek cuisine then you will just adore these recipes. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. The photos in the book are wonderful. Comfortable in the Kitchen: A Blue Jean Chef Cookbook (The Blue Jean Chef 1), Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery, The Handmade Loaf: The book that started a baking revolution, My Greek Traditional Cook Book 1: A Simple Greek Cuisine, The Ultimate Greek Cookbook: 111 BEST Greek Dishes To Cook Right Now (Balkan Food Book 4), Greek Takeout Cookbook: Favorite Greek Takeout Recipes to Make at Home, The Best Greek Recipe Book: The Tastiest Traditional Greek Recipes in One Place, 500 Greek Recipes: The Best Greek Cookbook on Earth. This is a recipe by a famous greek chef, Elias Mamalakis, who is now days very popular to the greek public not only for his recipes but also for his spirit. Please try your request again later. However, she's kept to the spirit of history, so Vegetable and Bean Barley Soup doesn't contain tomatoes, as those were imported from the Americas after Columbus visited. This recipe for shrimps à la spetsiota comes from Estiatoria Milos, a Greek seafood restaurant with branches in Athens, New York, Miami and London. Vefa Alexiadou has done it again. Each recipe was easy to follow, with no special jargon or equipment needed. Please try again. Once, in the introduction, the author slips again and claim she is recreating the ancient cuisines. Tasty dishes. She also has a great variety of recipes for the various Orthodox Christian holidays, which makes the book all the more valuable for festive occasions such as Christmas and Easter. Unable to add item to List. What you have here is good basic cooking without tomatoes or other New World additives. is more difficult to use, but the recipes end up closer to what seems to be indicated by the originals. Adult/High School - By combining modern ingredients and relatively simple but modern culinary techniques with snippets of ancient culinary history and passages from Greek and Roman thinkers, Segan offers both a wonderful curriculum adjunct and inspiration for extracurricular gustatory pleasure. Vefa Alexiadou is the leading cooking authority in Greece. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. Please try again. If it's traditional you want then look no further, Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2000. These Greek recipes are the very best and easiest you will find. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Many of these 250 heirloom recipes were handed down from the author's family, natives of the fabled city of Constantinople. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. These delectable, timeless, and earthy recipes reaffirm a beautiful and intangible aspect of cooking.” –Mario Batali, Babbo, Lupa, Esca, Otto and Casa Mono. A few dishes call for wine; none requires an ingredient difficult to find in a supermarket. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Please try again. So far I have found that the recipes in this book are good.