Food from Many Greek Kitchens by Tessa Kiros

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  • New Year wish cake (Vassilopitta)

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    • Categories: Cakes, large; Dessert; Greek
    • Ingredients: all-purpose flour; butter; sugar; eggs; oranges; brandy; blanched almonds
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  • Wedding rice (Yamopilafo)

    from Food from Many Greek Kitchens Food from Many Greek Kitchens by Tessa Kiros

    • Categories: Rice dishes; Side dish; Greek
    • Ingredients: lamb shoulder; white onions; bay leaves; ground cinnamon; medium grain rice; mizithra cheese; parsley
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  • Small baklava (Baklavadakia)

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    • Categories: Pies, tarts & pastries; Dessert; Greek
    • Ingredients: sugar; honey; butter; phyllo pastry; pistachio nuts
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  • Baklava

    from Food from Many Greek Kitchens Food from Many Greek Kitchens by Tessa Kiros

    • Categories: Pies, tarts & pastries; Dessert; Greek
    • Ingredients: sugar; honey; ground cinnamon; almonds; walnuts; phyllo pastry; butter; whole cloves
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  • Fried folds (Diples)

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    • Categories: Fried doughs; Dessert; Cooking ahead; Cooking for a crowd; Greek
    • Ingredients: eggs; all-purpose flour; olive oil; honey; ground cinnamon; ground cloves; walnuts
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  • Cake for lost things (Fanouropita)

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    • Categories: Cakes, large; Dessert; Cooking ahead; Greek
    • Ingredients: all-purpose flour; ground cinnamon; orange juice
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  • Butter almond cakes (Kourabiedes)

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    • Categories: Cakes, small; Dessert; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Greek
    • Ingredients: almonds; butter; egg yolks; brandy; all-purpose flour; confectioner's sugar
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  • Honey cakes (Melomakarona)

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    • Categories: Cakes, small; Dessert; Christmas; Cooking ahead; Greek
    • Ingredients: brandy; oranges; ground cinnamon; ground cloves; nutmeg; all-purpose flour; honey; sugar; cinnamon sticks; whole cloves; walnuts
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  • Grilled lamb cutlets

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    • Categories: Grills & BBQ; Main course; Greek
    • Ingredients: lamb cutlets; lemons; dried oregano
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  • Once-a-year bread

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    • Categories: Bread & rolls, savory; Greek
    • Ingredients: active dry yeast; bread flour; sesame seeds
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  • Taramosalata

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    • Categories: Dips, spreads & salsas; Greek
    • Ingredients: country bread; tarama; paprika; red onions; olive oil; lemons
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  • Tarama balls (Taramokeftedes)

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    • Categories: Appetizers / starters; Greek
    • Ingredients: stale bread; tarama; red onions; mint; parsley; olive oil
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  • Stovetop stuffed vine leaves (Dolmades)

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    • Categories: Appetizers / starters; Greek; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: vine leaves; red onions; medium grain rice; tomatoes; parsley; lemons; mint
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  • Baked stuffed vine leaves (Dolmades)

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    • Categories: Appetizers / starters; Greek; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: vine leaves; red onions; wild mushrooms; carrots; zucchini; tomatoes; medium grain rice; parsley; mint; lemons; kefalotyri cheese
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  • Nikokiras housewives' halva

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    • Categories: Candy / sweets; Greek
    • Ingredients: sugar; cinnamon sticks; whole cloves; olive oil; almonds; semolina; ground cinnamon
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  • Garlic potato and olive oil mash (Skordalia)

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    • Categories: Side dish; Greek; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: potatoes; garlic; lemons; olive oil
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  • Skordalia fried salt cod (Bakaliaros)

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    • Categories: Main course; Greek
    • Ingredients: salt cod; potatoes; garlic; lemons; olive oil
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  • Puréed yellow split peas (Fava)

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    • Categories: Appetizers / starters; Side dish; Greek; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: split yellow peas; red onions; capers
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  • Black-eyed peas [and lentils] (Mavromatika)

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    • Categories: Main course; Greek; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: black-eyed peas; red onions; lentils; green onions; parsley
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  • Tahini soup (Tahinosoupa)

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    • Categories: Soups; Greek; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: sesame seeds; paprika; noodles; tahini; lemons
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  • Noodles (Hilopites)

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    • Categories: Pasta, doughs & sauces; Side dish; Greek; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: all-purpose flour; olive oil
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  • Squid with greens (Soupies me horta)

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    • Categories: Main course; Greek
    • Ingredients: squid; greens of your choice; red chiles; canned tomatoes
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  • Octopus with short pasta (Htapodimekofto makaronaki)

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    • Categories: Pasta, doughs & sauces; Main course; Greek
    • Ingredients: octopus; red onions; paprika; bay leaves; ground chiles; canned tomatoes; parsley; ditalini pasta
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  • Spinach rice (Spanakorizo)

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    • Categories: Rice dishes; Side dish; Greek; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: spinach; green onions; dill; medium grain rice; lemons; mint
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  • Mussel rice (Midopilafo)

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    • Categories: Rice dishes; Side dish; Main course; Greek
    • Ingredients: mussels; parsley; green onions; dill; ouzo; tomatoes; medium grain rice
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  • Spinach pies (Spanokopita)

    • tgirlza on May 13, 2014

      Made as one large pie and worked perfectly. Also had only freeze-dried dill, and tasted fine. Would use again in a pinch.

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Reviews about this book

  • PBS

    While it’s beautifully put together — the color palette is based on the colors of the ocean...I would have traded in about half of the beauty for a recognizable organizing principle.

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  • Pen and Fork

    There are as many mesmerizing slice of life/travelogue photographs as recipe photos. Even the food shots have wonderfully distracting backgrounds or objects accompanying them.

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  • Los Angeles Times by Jenn Garbee

    ...this is an authentic, traditional, and gorgeous Greek cookbook.

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  • ISBN 10 1449406521
  • ISBN 13 9781449406523
  • Linked ISBNs
  • Published Jun 14 2011
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 336
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Imprint Andrews McMeel Publishing

Publishers Text

Food, culture, celebration, and memory are inexorably tied together inside Tessa Kiros's Food from Many Greek Kitchens. As the follow-up to her best-selling Venezia and Falling Cloudberries, Food from Many Greek Kitchens explores Kiros's Greek-Cypriot heritage and takes readers on a colorful journey into the Greek kitchens of her friends and family as she catalogs the traditional foods for fasting, festivals, and feast days.

Recipes like Vassilopitta New Year Wish Cake, Lamb in a Flowerpot with Dill and Red Wine, Yamopilafo Wedding Rice, and Easter Soup are accompanied by short introductions that explain each dish's cultural significance. In addition, lavish full-color photographs take readers on a tour from the local Mediterranean fishmongers and markets into Greek family homes and kitchens to experience the best in authentic Greek cooking.

With a glossary and more than 200 classically prepared Greek recipes, Food from Many Greek Kitchens adds a greater depth of flavor to each dish through Kiros's warm anecdotal introductions like the following passage for Vassilopitta:

"In Greece, everyone has a vassilopitta (cake) at New Year. The wonderful thing about this cake is that a flouri (coin) is added before baking. If you're lucky to get the piece with the coin, you'll be blessed for the year. Don't you love that sense of celebration the Greeks have?" --Food from Many Greek Kitchens

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