Greek History And Food

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behind France. The most popular Greek cheese is Feta, which is a smooth cottage type of cheese.
Greeks drink a lot of wine. If you are a first-time visitor, you probably better order your wine aretsinoto (without resin), or your mouth will pucker. Retsina, or resinated wine, has a distinctive flavor and tastes better when chilled. Greek food has been influenced by many sources. The area that Greece occupies was the ancient city-states of Athens, Sparta, and Corinth. Their individual styles of cooking helped shape Greek cooking into what it is today.
Undoubtedly baklava is the most famous pastry, a multi-layered ribboned pastry with nuts and oozing with honey syrup. A visit to a Greek pastry shop reveals the how many different ways Greeks use fila dough many of them have aTurkish origin. The honeyed fila pastries and buttery nut cookies compose a separate late afternoon meal accompanied by thick Greek coffee. Fresh fruit -- generally figs, orange, apples, and melon -- usually ...

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and bear fruit.
Taste, aroma and color are all indications of the quality of olive oil.
EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL. Virgin olive oil with an extremely fine taste and an acidity of not more than 1%
VIRGIN OLIVE OIL. Also described as "select". This oil has an exceptionally fine taste and its acidity level does not exceed 2%.
OLIVE OIL: obtained by mixing refined and virgin olive oil. It has an acidity of up to 1.5
In the Greek orthodox religion Olive oil is a symbol of love and peace. Many Greeks have an oil lamp burning olive oil on their homemade altars. Olive oil somehow seems to bring out the true taste of the ingredients while adding its own personal touch.
When a recipe calls for ...

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