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Eating & Drinking in Greece - Foods in Greece

Information on wining and dining in Greece, restaurants and tavernas, regional specialties, Greek beers, Greek recipes, regional products, cheeses, wine, wineries and vineyards. Greece food.

Dining Out Greek for the Timid

Greek Dining - Don't know your mousse (or moose) from a moussaka? Here's help.

Good Morning, Greece

Say Good Morning to Greece and learn my secret to a great Greek breakfast.

Best Places to Drink a Beer in Greece

What are the best places to drink a beer in Greece? You tell me!

Greek Garlic

Greek Garlic - we don't associate garlic with Greek cuisine the way we do with Italian food - but that doesn't mean it isn't there. Find out how to enjoy Greek garlic on your trip to Greece.

Greek Wines & Wine Country

Greece - Wines and Wine Country. Taste the wines of Hellas. From deTraci Regula.

Logari

Logari features the secrets of cooking traditional Cretan Cuisine.

Dining Out Greek for the Timid

A moussaka is not a small chocolate mousse! Dine bravely and know what you're ordering, at home and in Hellas.

How to Eat a Snail on Crete

How to eat a snail on Crete. What to do when presented with a plate of snails at a traditional Cretan restaurant.

Books on Greek cooking and cuisine

Want to bring home the flavors of Greece? With these books, you can - without overweight luggage.

Athena's Gift - Olives and Olive Oil

Athena won the hearts of the Greeks with her gift of olives.

What foods can you bring back from Greece?

Traveling from Greece? Find out what foods you can bring back from Greece without hassles (or fines) at the airport.

Greek Travel Books - Herbs in Cooking - Cooking of Greece

A look at "Herbs in Cooking" by Maria and Nikos Psilakis, describing Greek herbs and their uses in cooking and medicine.

Greek Yogurt - Another Reason to Travel to Greece

I don't like yogurt. So why do I find myself fantasizing, again and again, about my first time with Greek yogurt?

Good Morning, Greece

Here's my secret to a great Greek breakfast.

Greek Beers

Native beers are just hanging on in Greece; sample them while you can!

Greek Food and Cooking

Find out all the secrets of Greek food and cooking from Nancy Gaifyllia, About.com's Guide to Greek Cooking.

Greek Mountain Tea

greek mountain tea

Ooh - Ouzo

Greek lightning fit for Zeus's thunderbolts. Find out about this seriously intoxicating beverage of Greece.

Retsina - Greek Wine of the Gods

Pine wine? Check out an acquired taste that may be worth acquiring.

Top Picks on Foods from Greece

Find your favorite flavors from Greece available on-line.

Culinary Glossary

From Diane Kochilas via The Travel Lady, handy pronunciations of Greek food terms and quick descriptions of what they mean. No Greek alphabet equivalents, however.

Greek Olive Oil

From Madalyn Miller, the Travel Lady, a very useful intro to this glorious substance. Includes tips on when and how to use the different grades of olive oil.

Greek Restaurants in the U.S.

From GreekCuisine.com, a thorough index to Greek and Greek-owned restaurants throughout the United States. Names and addresses only.

Ouzo

Matt Barrett recounts in detail his adventures with ouzo on the isle of Lesbos.

Visit a Greek Market on Cyprus

Wander a street market and sample some of the local delights through this informative and well-illustrated page.

Vegan Dining in Greece

Tips on maintaining a vegan diet while traveling or living in Greece.
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