My new baby, patiently waiting for me. My baby is a replica of a5th century pnigeus, a portable earthenware oven. Its name comes from the verb πνίγω, to choke, strangle. Hippo, a presocratic Greek philosopher, said that the heavens were like the dome of…
Ovens
And from a peculiar way of baking or roasting it, there is a loaf called ipnites (or the oven loaf) which Timocles mentions in his Sham Robbers, where he says — And seeing there a tray before me full of…
Easter ovens
Although the spit roasted lamb and kokoretsi are considered the traditional Greek Easter foods, in fact they belong only to the tradition of central Greece. In islands people put their easter roasts and meat pies in ovens. In Cretan villages the use of ovens is essential year round; hence almost…