haris & michael —
The Story of iCookGreek
Two Greeks — one Cypriot, one Greek — sharing the recipes, stories, and soul of the cuisine that raised them.
iCookGreek was created from a simple idea: food is more than recipes. It is history, memory, family, and culture.
We are two Greeks living abroad — one Cypriot, one Greek — Haris and Michael. When we met, we connected instantly through our love for our culture, our traditions, and the food we grew up with. Very quickly, that connection turned into a mission: to share the stories and the soul behind Greek and Cypriot cuisine with the world.
What started as simple cooking videos slowly became something much bigger. People were connecting not only with the recipes, but with the history and emotions behind them. Some dishes came from villages, others from times of war, poverty, celebration, migration, and survival. Every recipe carried a story worth preserving.
Food is one of the strongest ways a culture survives through time. That belief is the entire reason this cookbook exists.
how we grew —
From a kitchen to a community
How we met
Chapter 01
Two Greeks, one kitchen
One Cypriot. One Greek. Haris and Michael — two Greeks living abroad who met and connected instantly through their love for the culture, the traditions, and the food they had grown up with. Within weeks, that connection had a name.
The first videos
Chapter 02
Cooking, then sharing
We started with simple recipes filmed in our own kitchen — fasolada, halloumi, souvlaki — the dishes our families made. The internet leaned in faster than we expected. Comments arrived from Greeks abroad telling us our food smelled like their grandmother's kitchen.
Something bigger
Chapter 03
The stories took over
We realised quickly that people weren't only connecting with the recipes — they were connecting with the history behind them. Dishes from villages, from times of war and poverty, from celebration, migration and survival. Every recipe carried a story worth preserving.
Today
Chapter 04
A cultural archive
What started as cooking videos has grown into a digital cookbook and cultural archive — read across more than forty countries by people who love Mediterranean food, real stories, and the quiet act of keeping traditions alive for the generation that comes next.
by the numbers —
A community we never imagined.
120K+
Followers across platforms
5.2M+
Total views
180+
Videos created
40+
Countries reached
Updated as the channel grows
our philosophy —
Greek food is more than recipes.
It's family. It's history. It's a village somewhere on a hillside, an old radio in the corner, hands that knew exactly how much salt without ever measuring. Every dish we cook is a small act of remembering.
Family
Recipes are how we keep them with us.
History
Every dish is a small piece of who we are.
Tradition
Made the way it was always made.
Hospitality
Φιλοξενία — the open table is sacred.
Storytelling
Without the story, it is just a list of ingredients.
The Diaspora
Cooking for the Greeks the world scattered.
words from the table —
What our community tells us
Messages and comments from Greeks, Cypriots, and food-lovers around the world. The reason we keep cooking.
"I cried watching the fasolada video. My mother used to make it on Sundays before she passed. You brought her back to my kitchen for ten minutes."
Eleni
Melbourne, Australia
"Thank you for telling the story behind kleftiko. My pappou was a Klepht — I never knew the dish carried that name for that reason. We watched together and he cried."
Andreas
Limassol, Cyprus
"I'm teaching my daughter to cook from your videos. She doesn't speak Greek but she now knows what agrelia are, and why we go to the hills in March."
Maria
Toronto, Canada
"Bought the ingredients on a Sunday morning, made the Rhodian meatballs, called my parents. Best phone call we've had in months. Σας ευχαριστώ."
Stavros
Berlin, Germany
"I've followed a hundred food channels. Yours is the only one that makes me feel something. Please don't ever stop."
Sofia
London, UK
"I'm Greek and I learned things about my own food from your videos. Keep going — what you're doing matters."
Nikos
Athens, Greece
The small things that became a brand
We don't just share recipes.
We share the stories behind them.
— iCookGreek
come cook with us —