a digital cookbook & cultural archive —
Traditional Greek
& Cypriot Recipes
Food, history, and culture preserved through storytelling.
Featured recipes from the archive
The dishes our grandparents would recognize — every one with its backstory and a place in our family table.
Melopita
The honey pie of Sifnos — fresh anthotyro, honey and eggs baked without pastry into a soft, golden custard. Ranked the world's number one sweet pie by TasteAtlas.
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Keftedakia
Golden fried Greek meatballs with mint, lemon, cumin and wild oregano — an idea that travelled from Persia to every Greek island and family table.
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Dakos
Crete's twice-baked barley rusk soaked with marinated grated tomato, crowned with feta, capers, olives and wild oregano — field food that became a symbol of an island.
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Psari à la Spetsiota
Fish in the style of Spetses — fillets baked over a glazed tomato, garlic and wine sauce, crowned with roasted tomato slices, olive oil and herbs.
Read the storyEvery dish carries a village inside it.
Some recipes are too important to be told as a list of ingredients. These are the dishes whose stories we'll never let go of.
Greece · Episode 01
Fasolada
Cyprus · Episode 02
Agrelia me ta Afka (Asparagus with Eggs)
Greece · Episode 03
Rhodian Meatballs
Greece · Episode 04
Kleftiko
Greece · Episode 05
Mavromatika (Greek Black-Eyed Peas)
Greece · Episode 06
Mavromatika · Part II (Greek Edition)
Greece · Episode 07
Dolmadakia Yialantzi
Greece · Episode 08
Vasilopita
Greece · Episode 09
Soutzoukakia Smyrneika
Greece · Episode 10
Loukoumades
Greece · Episode 11
Horiatiki (Greek Village Salad)
Greece · Episode 12
Rizogalo
Cyprus · Episode 13
Pourgouri
Greece · Episode 14
Kariokes
Cyprus · Episode 15
Afelia
Greece · Episode 16
Magiritsa
Greece · Episode 17
Red Mullet Savóro
Greece · Episode 18
Manti
Greece · Episode 19
Imam Bayildi
Greece · Episode 20
Psarokeftedes (Fish Cakes)
Greece · Episode 21
Corfiot Sofrito
Greece · Episode 22
Ladenia
Greece · Episode 23
Tzatziki
Greece · Episode 24
Gemista Orfana
Greece · Episode 25
Bekri Meze
Greece · Episode 26
Psari à la Spetsiota
Greece · Episode 27
Dakos
Greece · Episode 28
Keftedakia
Greece · Episode 29
Melopita
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coming soon —
Aphrodite's Roots
We're starting with one ingredient. The wild oregano we cook with every day — picked by hand from the hills of Cyprus, dried slowly in the shade, packed into small 40g pouches. The rigani that perfumes every plate in this archive.
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first batch —
Wild Mountain Oregano
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