Greek Recipes
Food plays an important part in Greek family and social gatherings. It has a broad cultural significance too as most religious occasions and rituals, and other traditions and celebrations, are associated with particular food customs.
Greeks are very proud of their traditional regional dishes. Many common recipes have the same standard ingredients but may vary regionally according to their method of preparation or the addition of particular herbs and spices. See Food and Cooking for more detailed information about the importance of food and eating in Greek culture.
Think about how to build cooking activities into your activities program. Cooking and eating can be an individual or a group activity, at your client’s home, in a community group setting, or within a residential facility.
There are far too many recipes to include here. A number of excellent websites can be consulted. They are listed below.
Greek Recipes.com
A comprehensive website, in English, with recipes for every occasion, and diets and recipes to suit all culinary tastes.
Driskas
An excellent website. You can download and print off recipes in the Greek language for your client to follow. The only difficulty may be in selecting the preferred recipe as your client may need to read the long list of available recipes.
Elias Mamalakis
An extensive list of wonderful recipes in Greek.
Kalofagas
In this Greek Canadian food lover’s blog there are a number of Greek recipes. View the ‘Recipe Index’ under ‘Greek’.
