Limassol Wine Festival | August 28, 2009 to September 6, 2009 | Organised by Limassol Municipality
Cyprus’ wine capital Limassol lives up to its reputation as a party town with a Wine Festival that it hosts every year. Held at the Municipal Gardens, just across from the coastal promenade, in late August, early September, this event has [...]
So Cyprus has a Cipriani Ristorante in Nicosia, another indication that they are without doubt the centre of the universe.
Just as their empire is collapsing in New York, and Venice has never really recovered from the loss of Hemingway and Welles, not to mention the Aga Khan, we can now be certain that the Nicosia’s [...]
One of Greece’s leading oenologists who produces wine under the Gaia [Mother Earth] label is on a mission.
Dr. Yiannis Paraskevopoulos is a man on a mission. He is arguably Greece’s most visible oenologist, a respected winemaker, an influential teacher and a “poster boy for a modern, urbane wine industry”. He is also relatively young, disarmingly [...]
Ah, those lovable wine geeks holding their glasses high to check a wine’s color before they swirl and slurp, memorizing vintages and debating the terroir of this or that vineyard. What a feature of the modern world!
Only they’re not new. They just seem new because it’s only recently that many have become wine drinkers. Wine geekery [...]
Like asparagus and English peas, fava beans are a verdant harbinger of spring. Favas are “one of the kitchen’s most labor-intensive fancy legumes”.
Nature wasn’t content to just shield the beans in a thickly padded pod. She also provided each bean with a snug-fitting waxy hull. Both usually must be removed for the bright green, nutty-tasting [...]
Food In The Ancient World, by John Wilkins and Shaun Hill, published by Wiley Blackwell [2005]
What would the food have been like at an ancient Greek banquet? Moussaka would certainly have been off the menu, there were no aubergines or tomatoes back then. In fact, many of the items we now take for granted as being [...]
The Cypriot food vocabulary is huge. Greek Cypriots dine with as much gusto, if not more, than any other country in the Mediterranean.
Though the country has strong Greek roots, its cuisine also has traces of Middle Eastern influence, as evidenced in the popularity of such dishes as hummus and pita bread, just to name but a [...]
