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By: kalofagas.ca – Greek Food & Beyond » Blog Archive » Back From Greece and Armed With Recipes

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:27:27 +0000

[...] when it’s grilled. The idea for this recipe comes from a recipe I saw in Vefa’s Kitchen. This book is huge, full of recipes from all regions of Greece and surely a “must-have” [...]

By: cgHipp

cgHipp — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:34:57 +0000

I recently purchased this book and tried a couple of the recipes tonight – the chicken with lemon sauce and potatoes (p.355), and the zucchini stuffed with rice (p.227). Both recipes turned out fantastic – and I have never tried Greek cooking before. One quibble I have, though was about specificity in ingredients. For example, is the rice in the stuffed zucchini cooked or uncooked? It would take so little effort (and space) to just say one way or the other. I had a hunch, but why should I have to figure it out?
The recipe also calls for one onion. What size onion? One white onion can easily be twice the size of another.

I couldn’t get too worked up about this, though, because my own personal recipes are just lists of ingredients, and usually when I look for a recipe it’s just to find what ingredients are in a dish, not how much of it. So, how much onion? A lot, because I like a lot. Works for me! I can’t wait to try more.

By: Syrup and Tang — Book discounts aren't always a bargain

Syrup and Tang — Book discounts aren't always a bargain — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:52:31 +0000

[...] So, let's wander into an Australian bookshop and see what we find. Independent booksellers tend to sell at the Australian recommended retail price (RRP). They can't often afford to discount, but they aren't out to gouge customers either. Now pop into Borders. What if you want to buy, say, Vefa's Kitchen — a new Greek cookbook (recently reviewed over at The Gastronomer's Bookshelf)? [...]

By: kalofagas.ca – Greek Food & Beyond » Blog Archive » Greek Food Gazette 17/07/09

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:00:14 +0000

[...] Vefa’s Kitchen, a huge tome of Greek recipes compiled from her previous books is released in the English market, read my review [...]

By: Tina Z

Tina Z — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:41:03 +0000

[EDITOR'S NOTE: A reader called "Tina Z" left a comment. We have tried to contact her but her email address was incorrect. "Tina Z" wanted to point out that Vefa's Kitchen is not an original work, but instead combines many of Vefa's previous books into one large all-in-one volume. For readers who already own some of Vefa's books, this new volume could be disappointing because of the overlap with previous books. We have also corrected an ambiguity in the review text to address another issue raised by "Tina Z".]