a digital cookbook & cultural archive —
Traditional Greek
& Cypriot Recipes
Food, history, and culture preserved through storytelling.
Featured recipes from the archive
The dishes our grandparents would recognize — every one with its backstory and a place in our family table.
Gemista Orfana
The 'orphan' stuffed vegetables of the Greek summer — no meat, just ripe tomatoes, peppers and zucchini filled with herbed rice, pine nuts and raisins, baked until caramelised.
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Tzatziki
Thick strained yogurt whipped with grated cucumber, garlic, olive oil, vinegar, and a shower of dill — the cool, garlicky heart of the Greek table, older than any of us can properly count.
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Ladenia
The flatbread of Kimolos — a Cycladic ancestor of pizza, generous with olive oil, sweet red onions, ripe tomatoes, and wild oregano, baked until the crust is deep gold and the tomato edges are almost burnt.
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Corfiot Sofrito
Thin slices of beef braised slowly in olive oil, garlic, white wine, and vinegar, showered with parsley — Corfu's most elegant Sunday dish, born of 700 years of Venetian trade.
Read the storyEvery dish carries a village inside it.
Some recipes are too important to be told as a list of ingredients. These are the dishes whose stories we'll never let go of.
Greece · Episode 01
Fasolada
Cyprus · Episode 02
Agrelia me ta Afka (Asparagus with Eggs)
Greece · Episode 03
Rhodian Meatballs
Greece · Episode 04
Kleftiko
Greece · Episode 05
Mavromatika (Greek Black-Eyed Peas)
Greece · Episode 06
Mavromatika · Part II (Greek Edition)
Greece · Episode 07
Dolmadakia Yialantzi
Greece · Episode 08
Vasilopita
Greece · Episode 09
Soutzoukakia Smyrneika
Greece · Episode 10
Loukoumades
Greece · Episode 11
Horiatiki (Greek Village Salad)
Greece · Episode 12
Rizogalo
Cyprus · Episode 13
Pourgouri
Greece · Episode 14
Kariokes
Cyprus · Episode 15
Afelia
Greece · Episode 16
Magiritsa
Greece · Episode 17
Red Mullet Savóro
Greece · Episode 18
Manti
Greece · Episode 19
Imam Bayildi
Greece · Episode 20
Psarokeftedes (Fish Cakes)
Greece · Episode 21
Corfiot Sofrito
Greece · Episode 22
Ladenia
Greece · Episode 23
Tzatziki
Greece · Episode 24
Gemista Orfana
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coming soon —
Aphrodite's Roots
We're starting with one ingredient. The wild oregano we cook with every day — picked by hand from the hills of Cyprus, dried slowly in the shade, packed into small 40g pouches. The rigani that perfumes every plate in this archive.
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first batch —
Wild Mountain Oregano
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