The Best Book of Greek Cookery [antikvár]

GREEK CUISINEWHAT is Greek Cuisine? But firstly, is there such a thing as Greek Cuisine? Is there a style of cooking which is truly Greektruly native? In other words, ways of cooking which have not been borrowed from neighbouring countries, such as Turkey or Italy, or at least influenced by the cuisines of Turkey or Italy? This is what certain foreign experts in the field of gastronomy have claimed, basing their claim on Greek recipes with Turkish names, and on the great similarities between somé Greek and Italian foods and sweetmeats in particular, those of the Greek Islands.So, because many of our ways of cooking bear Turkish names, or because somé happen to have a great similarity to the Turkish and Italian cuisine, many so-called experts have with one swift stroke of their pens-crossed out Greek cuisine from their lists. Is that right, however?We positively say NO)>! On the contrary, Greek cuisine is one of the most superb cuisines and has the most ancient traditions in the world. Greek cuisine is, in fact, the originál cuisine and it was the Turks, the Italians and Europeans who actually borrowed from the Greeks whenever they came in contact with them. Non-Greeks borrowed from the Greeks their style of cooking,