Angel hair soup: with angel hair pasta, chopped potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, onions, lentils, bay leaf, without olive oil. It is eaten during Good Friday. Bacaliaros, salt cod: once an inexpensive food but now it is a luxury. It is prepared in many ways and is the…
ADMIRAL’S MIAOULIS SEA BASS …
In brief: “Greece became independent in the early 1830s, after a prolonged war of liberation/secession from the Ottoman empire. Like the contemporaneous revolts of the Carbonari in Italy and France (1820, 1821) and the victorious uprising of the anti-monarchist Spaniards…
EDIBLE LITTLE SHOES (Papoutsakia, παπουτσάκια)
Is Aphrodite’s raised sandal a tease or is she intending to slap the goat-legged Pan with it, because she is not interested in an erotic adventure with him? 100 BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.* Beautifully decorated sandals were traditionally included in bride’s gifts. For jewelry,…
FISH ROE
Τhough I was raised in a non religious middle class family, the consumption of special Lenten foods didn’t differ from other middle class housholds, apart from the fact that it had to do with folk rituals rather than religion. When I was a child, crab meat, black caviar,…
FASTING FROM OLIVE OIL
The periodic abstinence from olive oil is one of the hardest parts of fasting. But why is there such a prohibition? Let’s start from the beginning. Religious fasting nutrition is a form of self discipline. It can be also a form of commemoration of saints or…