[PDF] Sweet On The Greek eBook

Author : Kathy Tsaples
Publisher : Touchwood Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781771514156

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A collection of 90+ traditional Greek recipes that will help you master classic favourites like spanakopita and baclava, and add dozens of new treats to your repertoire. Kathy Tsaples's parents arrived in Australia as part of the early-1950s wave of immigrants from Greece and their household in Melbourne became a regular gathering place for the Greek families in their neighbourhood, nourished by Kathy's mother's cooking. Fast forward a few decades and following a battle with cancer that caused her to re-evaluate her life's purpose, Kathy began to focus on the Hellenic cuisine handed down to her. She opened a shop and soon began collecting her family's recipes into a book to share with home cooks. Stock your kitchen with Mediterranean staples like olive oil, lemon, olives, feta, rosemary, eggplant, spinach, tomato, peppers, dried beans, fish, and lamb and let Kathy teach you to make: Eggplant Dip Slow Roasted Okra Casserole Chargrilled Octopus Koulourakia Fig Spoon Sweet and so many more! Organized around feasts from the Greek Orthodox calendar as well as national holidays, the book also has a chapter dedicated to winter meals and another all about sweets. With 90+ wholesome, highly flavourful recipes adapted for the North American kitchen, accompanied by rustic photography and family ephemera, Sweet Greek will help you master familiar Greek favourites like moussaka, tzatziki, spanakopita, dolmades, and baclava, and add dozens of new treats to your repertoire.

Author : Talia Hibbert
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781916404397

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When a promiscuous footballer with a heart of gold hires cynical Aria as his fake girlfriend, she gets more than she bargained for. Glamorous holidays, epic faux romance... and true love?

Author : Kathy Tsaples
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781922129932

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Food for me is the essence of life and life shared with family and friends is beautiful. Food in general brings people together -- it's part of the glue that binds society. Being Greek is about celebrating life with the ones we love. It's about spreading the table with delicious dishes bringing everyone together, feasting, laughing, drinking, listening to music, singing and dancing. Treasured moments to become lifelong treasured memories. What I have come to realise over the last few years, especially since setting up the "Sweet Greek Shop", is that cooking fulfils those basic needs we all have - the need to create, contribute, share and love. For me, this encapsulates the essence of cooking something special for the ones we love. It's the using of our own hands to make something out of simple, honest ingredients, something prepared not for sustenance or financial gain, but purely for the purpose of bringing warmth and happiness, however small, to another person's life. Family, life, my friends, their good health and happiness, my culture and heritage are all the things that matter to me. It's respecting the legacy that our parents have left us and passing it onto future generations. The recipes that I have chosen to include in this book hold a lot of meaning for me. Some, are more traditional, others are more simple, and some are from my travels in Greece. All the dishes, apart from being delicious are simple, pragmatic and achievable in your own kitchen. Everyone relates to food based on their own experiences and its these experiences that create treasured memories and is what life is all about. Happiness is where the heart is, and the heartbeat of my home is the kitchen.

Author : Mark Mazower
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0143110934

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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of Independence—the ultimate worldwide liberal cause célèbre of the age of Byron, Europe’s first nationalist uprising, and the beginning of the downward spiral of the Ottoman Empire—published two hundred years after its outbreak As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason. This was an unlikely cause, against long odds, a disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most storied empires in the world, the Ottomans. The revolutionaries needed all the help they could get. And they got it as Europeans and Americans embraced the idea that the heirs to ancient Greece, the wellspring of Western civilization, were fighting for their freedom against the proverbial Eastern despot, the Turkish sultan. This was Christianity versus Islam, now given urgency by new ideas about the nation-state and democracy that were shaking up the old order. Lord Byron is only the most famous of the combatants who went to Greece to fight and die—along with many more who followed events passionately and supported the cause through art, music, and humanitarian aid. To many who did go, it was a rude awakening to find that the Greeks were a far cry from their illustrious forebears, and were often hard to tell apart from the Ottomans. Mazower does full justice to the realities on the ground as a revolutionary conspiracy triggered outright rebellion, and a fraying and distracted Ottoman leadership first missed the plot and then overreacted disastrously. He shows how and why ethnic cleansing commenced almost immediately on both sides. By the time the dust settled, Greece was free, and Europe was changed forever. It was a victory for a completely new kind of politics—international in its range and affiliations, popular in its origins, romantic in sentiment, and radical in its goals. It was here on the very edge of Europe that the first successful revolution took place in which a people claimed liberty for themselves and overthrew an entire empire to attain it, transforming diplomatic norms and the direction of European politics forever, and inaugurating a new world of nation-states, the world in which we still live.

Author : Kathy Tsaples
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1771514167

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"The holy book of Greek food." —Christos Sourligas, bestselling author of My Big Fat Greek Cookbook A collection of 90+ traditional Greek recipes that will help you master classic favourites like spanakopita and baclava, and add dozens of new treats to your repertoire. Kathy Tsaples’s parents arrived in Australia as part of the early-1950s wave of immigrants from Greece and their household in Melbourne became a regular gathering place for the Greek families in their neighbourhood, nourished by Kathy’s mother’s cooking. Fast forward a few decades and following a battle with cancer that caused her to re-evaluate her life’s purpose, Kathy began to focus on the Hellenic cuisine handed down to her. She opened a shop and soon began collecting her family’s recipes into a book to share with home cooks. Stock your kitchen with Mediterranean staples like olive oil, lemon, olives, feta, rosemary, eggplant, spinach, tomato, peppers, dried beans, fish, and lamb and let Kathy teach you to make: Eggplant Dip Slow Roasted Okra Casserole Chargrilled Octopus Koulourakia Fig Spoon Sweet and so many more! Organized around feasts from the Greek Orthodox calendar as well as national holidays, the book also has a chapter dedicated to winter meals and another all about sweets. With 90+ wholesome, highly flavourful recipes adapted for the North American kitchen, accompanied by rustic photography and family ephemera, Sweet Greek will help you master familiar Greek favourites like moussaka, tzatziki, spanakopita, dolmades, and baclava, and add dozens of new treats to your repertoire.

Author : Kira Archer
Publisher : Entangled: Indulgence
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1633756971

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Always the life of the party, Luca Vasilakis needs to prove he’s capable of taking over his father’s billion-dollar corporation. The perfect opportunity falls in his arms in the form of the reserved but sexy social worker Constance McMurty. What better way to improve his reputation than to get engaged to a do-gooder who is raising six orphans? Constance wants nothing to do with Luca. But a poorly timed paparazzi photo lands her in the middle of a media nightmare, and Luca is her only way out. He proposes an idea that will help them both—be his fiancée to gain him some respectability and he’ll make a huge donation to her organization...and save her reputation. But when their lie starts feeling like the truth, and the chemistry just won’t stop, they have a hard time separating what’s real and what’s fantasy...

Author : Michael K. Kellogg
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1616145765

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The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was "but a series of footnotes to Plato." By the same token, one could argue that all of Western civilization is but an extension of the ancient Greek cultural legacy. The Greeks invented tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, history, philosophy, and democracy. They also made remarkable advances in science, medicine, and mathematics. In the author’s view, what ties this wide-ranging intellectual ferment together is a restless search for wisdom. The author looks at ten outstanding examples of Greek wisdom, offering fresh and engaging portraits of the epic poets (Homer, Hesiod); dramatists (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes); historians (Herodotus, Thucydides); and philosophers (Plato, Aristotle) against the background of Greek history. In each case he asks what the author has to tell us— regardless of genre—about our place in the world and how we should live our lives. By surveying some of the highest peaks of ancient civilization, the author argues that we gain perspective on the historical terrain that lies below. This book presents an eloquent and convincing case that a study of the Greek classics, as Gustave Flaubert explained, makes us "greater, wiser, purer."

Author : Chantelle Shaw
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459227220

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Billionaire tycoon Loukas Christakis has learned the hard way never to trust a woman. The only female he cares about is his soon-to-be-married little sister. And that's why he's reluctantly allowed struggling designer Belle Andersen to make the wedding dress on his private island—where he can keep an eye on her! Alone together as she works, innocent Belle becomes an unexpected temptation to the virile Loukas. But what should just have been a short paradise affair has consequences. And, as Belle is about to find out, Loukas will do whatever it takes to secure what he feels is rightfully his….

Author : Lucy Monroe
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426864353

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From the USA Today–bestselling author: “Zephyr’s story is touching and passionate giving the reader the feeling that love can conquer all.” —Fresh Fiction Self-made billionaire Zephyr Nikos has come a long way from the streets of Athens, but his heart is stone-cold—like marble. He can’t offer Piper Madison his love; instead he offers her his world—fine dining, private jet, rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful . . . As their desire heats up and finally reaches boiling point, Zephyr and Piper must end their affair before one of them gets hurt. There’s just one small complication . . . Piper’s pregnancy test just came back positive! “Complex characters, exotic locals, and a compelling plot snare the reader from the first, unfolding smoothly to deliver a happily ever after that ends with a sated sigh.” —CataRomance Reviews “The Greek’s Pregnant Lover sweeps from Athens to Seattle with a whirlwind romance readers will love.” —Kathy’s Review Corner