COMENIUS PROJECT (2012-2013) “Building the cultural bridges of friendship” Comenius meeting 3-9 March 2013 GREECE

2. Greek Foods

3. Greek Cuisine: the healthiest
Greek cuisine is highly popular.
Medical and dietary research done worldwide consider the
Cretan cuisine as the most characteristic and qualitative
example of Mediterranean diet.
The inhabitants of Crete were found to have the lowest
mortality rates from cardiovascular disease and cancer.

4. Greek cuisine has been directly influenced
by Turkish

5. by Venetian
Particularly in the areas of
the Ionian islands where the
Venetians as conquerors
lived for many years.

6. The result of this cultural
combination with the
imagination of the Greek
people and the high
quality products of the
Greek land, led to the
formation of a cooking
tradition that is
considered the richest
and most delicious in the
world.

7. The Greek cuisine is a
mosaic of recipes and
traditions with so many
aspects of our ever
changing landscape.

8. The Greek salad

9. The appetizers

10. Delicious vegetables and greens

11. Legumes like beans and split peas

12. The fresh and exquisitely flavored fish
and seafood of the Greek seas

13. The juicy fruit

14. The good quality meat

15. The different kind of cheeses

16. The creamy and delicious
Greek yogurt

17. The rich and flavored Thyme or flora
Honey

18. Bread rolls, cheese pies, bread rolls with
olive oil and small pies with honey
cinnamon and clove.

19. The wine

20. The olive oil

21. Sweets

22. The
“Greek coffee”

23. The inhabitants of the Greek
provinces, with their own
taste, their own special flavors
and their local products have
created their local traditional
cuisine such as the cuisine of
Serres.
0Below there is a presentation
on the local products of
Serres.

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