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.
Magiritsa
The soup that ends the Lenten fast at midnight on Holy Saturday — lamb, dill, lettuce, rice, and the lemon-and-egg avgolemono that lifts the whole pot into Easter morning.
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Afelia
Cypriot pork slow-braised in red wine and crushed coriander seed — the most quietly Cypriot dish in the world. Simple food, from strong people.
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Kariokes
Dense, dark, walnut-studded chocolate bars from the city of Xanthi — born from leftover biscuit crumbs and turned into one of northern Greece's most beloved sweets.
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Pourgouri
Cracked wheat cooked slow with tomato and onion — the grain that fed Cyprus for three thousand years before rice ever reached the island.
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
Recipe categories
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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