Glorious Foods of Greece

A sumptuous collection of 400 authentic classic and contemporary recipes from every region of Greece. An extraordinary culinary and historical tour, this comprehensive, beautifully evocative cookbook draws a lovely, detailed portrait of a culture in which food is revered for nourishment, necessity, and pleasure. Covering everything from the rich mountain cooking of Epirus, Roumeli, and Thessaly, to the inventive cuisine of the sparse, dry Greek isle, The Glorious Foods of Greece offers more than 400 recipes drawn from generations of Greek cooking that use every native ingredient"“"“including fowl, grains, cheese, greens, seafood, grapes, and olives--that can be prepared by home cooks.