The Greek Kitchen - by Vefa Alexiadou Hardcover

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

Praise for Vefa Alexiadou's global bestseller, Greece: The Cookbook:

'The book's a stunner, beautifully designed, and should give hours of pleasure of page-flicking joy and cooking pleasure to anyone who appreciates real Greek food.' - Time Out

'A definitive collection of traditional Greek recipes.' - Food & Wine

'[M]agnificent... a treasure trove.' - New York Journal of Books

'Lovely and well written... Phaidon has produced the authoritative tome on Greek cookery.' - The Bookseller

'Phaidon's latest exploration in nation-specific cuisine is a rich and illuminating cook manual. Every page is dripping with colour and flavour, but also insight, a testament to the level of research put into the book.' - The Essential Journal

'This is hands-down one of the most genuine and detailed Greek cookbooks on the market.' - Huffington Post

About the Author

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.