The Greek Kitchen

The very best and most iconic recipes from the global bestseller Greece: The Cookbook, collected in an elegant and easy-to-use new cookbook

The Greek Kitchen offers a treasure trove of 75 authentic, delicious, home-cooking recipes. Featuring the region's hallmark ingredients - olive oil, bread, wine, figs, grapes, cheese - the dishes reveal how Greece's rich cultural history of land and sea created the original Mediterranean cuisine.

This stylish volume highlights the best and most beloved recipes from Greece: The Cookbook, by the grand dame of Greek cookery, Vefa Alexiadou. Chapters on Mezedes, Soups & Salads, Vegetables, Legumes & Pasta, Fish & Shellfish, Meat, Pies & Breads, Cookies & Cakes, and Pastries & Candies, showcase the breadth of Greek cooking. Easy-to-follow instructions and vibrant photography make this the perfect book for home cooks.

Spanning dishes such as Cuttlefish in Wine, Mixed Lamb Skewers, Chicken Souvlaki, and Spinach and Cheese Pie, as well as equally delicious and creative desserts, including as Hazelnut Cake, Baklava, Kataifi Pastry Rolls, and Almond 'Pears, ' The Greek Kitchen invites readers around the world to experience Greece's joyful feast of food in their own homes.

Vefa Alexiadou was the leading authority on Greek cookery. A bestselling author of thirteen cookbooks in Greece, she also had her own television series and regularly wrote articles for magazines and gave lectures and demonstrations on Greek recipes. She served on the board of the Centre for the Preservation of Traditional Greek Gastronomy. In 2009 she published Vefa's Kitchen with Phaidon (also released in 2017 as Greece: The Cookbook), to great critical acclaim.