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Take the Three Greek Sisters Home (Giveaway)

Dec 15th, 2009 | By Peter Minakis
Take the Three Greek Sisters Home (Giveaway)

Last week I had the pleasure of meeting the Three Greek Sisters. Born & raised in Toronto’s Greektown (The Danforth), these ladies have just released a self-published cookbook, “Around the Greek Table”.
Betty, Eleni and Samantha Bakopoulos share family recipes with the reader with one eye on on tradition and the other with plating traditional Greek [...]



Bakaliaros Skordalia (and a giveaway)

Mar 25th, 2009 | By Peter Minakis
Bakaliaros Skordalia (and a giveaway)

Today is March 25th, the celebration of Greek Independence Day and it draws inspiration from one of the holiest days for the Greeks, the Annuciation of the Theotokos. On this day, Gabriel the archangel announced to Mary that she will bear a child.
The Bishop of Patra, Germanos sparked the struggle for Greek Independance from Ottoman [...]



Artisan Bread in Five Minutes Book Winners

Feb 6th, 2009 | By Peter Minakis

It’s Friday, I’m in a good mood and I’m awed by the overwhelming response to this book giveaway.
I’m going to give away two books, as chosen by a computerized random number generator.
The first winner is #11, comment left by Elsee;
The second winner is #109, comment left by Dimitra.
Congratulations ladies and welcome to a whole new [...]



Artisan Bread in Five Minutes

Feb 2nd, 2009 | By Peter Minakis

“The weight of 10 sacks of flour have just come off my shoulder. I feel a great sense of triumph to be able to easily make bread.” (myself)
“Peter, how did you make this bread? We buy our bread from the Italian bakery and this reminds us of the crusty bread they produce.” (Italian neighbor)“Now this [...]