The GAZETTE
 
 Issue nr. 4
 
 SAPHIRE NEWSLETTER
 
Date: January 2007  
 
Cultural links

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Fortunately, what we usually call Greek cuisine and food is Turkish. (The only difference is that Turkish implementations are usually better…)

A good site for Greek food essentials – maintained by a non Greek is www.greecefoods.com . There you can find a primer in Greek food.

Another worth to read site is http://www.eatgreektonight.com ; there under the following link http://www.eatgreektonight.com/recipes.cfm you can find several recipes.

A further site is http://www.greekcuisine.com/ . A usual problem – other than the presentation of typical Turkish dishes as Greek … - is the use of materials and ingredients that are not Greek at all. For instance we found a recipe for ‘baked spinach with three cheeses’ – one of which is … Edam (which according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edam_(cheese) is a traditional Dutch cheese).

www.greek-recipe.com/ is also worth to visit – there amongst others there is a list of Top 10 most read, Top 10 most voted and Top 10 best rated recipes. You will then be able to validate on your own what we mention above about the origins of a great part of Greek food.

Finally, we rather think that the best source for accessing Greek food essentials and representative recipes is Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_cuisine

Closing this section, and in order to justify its title (cultural links) and save ourselfes from promoting gluttony we mention two of the very best private museums in Greece: the Benaki museum http://www.benaki.gr/index-en.htm and the Museum of Cycladic Art http://www.cycladic-m.gr/ .