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When the art of cooking, eating and enjoying makes you think for a while and ponder
Cooking without spices seems unthinkable and unbearably boring – so, because we’ve already covered salt and pepper recently, we’ve decided to continue in this vein and include spices on the shopping list. The use of spices is older than recorded history (about 7,000 years old) and they were being used before Greece and Rome were countries (not that Greece, strictly speaking, became a country until very much later) and ships laden with spices from India and China were already travelling to Egypt, Arabia and Mesopotamia at this time. Greeks being Greeks, it didn’t take them too long to discover the magic
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The Greeks believe that eating out and sharing one’s meal is as important as the food itself – it’s known as paraia – and in Lawrence Durrell’s words, it’s a transcendence of the dinner table …
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Around 400 BC, the Greeks often held banquets like the Symposium where much was discussed and wine was consumed in vast quantities. The affair started in the early evening when the host’s wife and his …
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The Capital of Greece is Athens and it is here where democracy was first debated and then born, where the wise men of old first developed the basics of education, medicine and law and it …
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The region of Tikves in the heart of Macedonia has always been identified with it’s viniculture. The Mediterranean climate of the Vardar river valley with it’s rich thermal and mineral sources, fertile soil, several lakes …
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Côte d’Ivoire has often been in the news lately because of vehement political differences between the parties – so vehement, in fact, that some of the clashes caused fatalities – which really is nothing new …
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Abidjan is set astride a lagoon and today is home to about 2,7 million people – it’s a modern city with French as the common language for doing business although most people can speak or, …
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More than half of the world’s plantains grow between the coast of West Africa and the Zaire basin which is probably why these snacks are so popular in the Ivory Coast. For those of you …
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This slow-cooked chicken stew is a popular dish in the Cote d’Ivoire, where the less-than-tender poultry benefits from the long cooking time – it is sometimes prepared by wrapping the ingredients in banana leaf packets …
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The food of the South is a fusion of cultures and eras that evolved and adapted – and still does – to circumstance and situation like few other cuisines do. The food of the Native …
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These delicious pancakes are traditionally eaten with maple syrup and crispy bacon and but cream cheese with smoked salmon, mackerel or spicy sausages are also delicious and often served these days. The southerners consider buttermilk …
