Product Description

Real Greek recipes, straight from the taverna kitchens of the island of Kefalonia. Recreate the flavours of Greece in your own home with forty traditional family recipes. 24 chefs share their culinary secrets for creating familiar Greek dishes as well as Kefalonian specialities.

More than just a cookbook, this is an artistic celebration of Greek taverna life. It is full of local info and insights into Greek culture. Classic taverna recipes have been carefully selected and personally tested for the home.

Cook, artist and grecophile, Gill's evocative watercolour sketches capture the colour, light and atmosphere of `Captain Corelli's Island'.

* Carefully tested, authentic taverna recipes

* More than 350 full-colour illustrations

* Local information, insights into Greek culture

* Wipe-clean glossy cover

* Wire-bound practicality: recipes fold flat

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #863863 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Greek cuisine in France
I lived in Kefalonia for several years and now live in France. I can't compete in the kitchen with French cuisine but I can certainly impress my new French friends with my Greek cooking with the invaluable help of this book. The recipes are easy to follow and even in France most of the ingredients are easy to find. A bonus is that the book brings back happy memories of the tavernas and meals we enjoyed in Kefalonia during our 6 years on the island.

Great introduction to Kefalonian Cuisine
The Greek Taverna Cookbook is based on authentic recipes from tavernas on the island of Kefalonia. Apart from the recipes, it is a great introduction to some of Kefalonia's more traditional tavernas. It's a handy book for me because although I live on Kefalonia I wouldn't dare ask the taverna owners for their secret recipes but I do use the book and love the easy recipes. The very laid back Greek style of life shows in some of the instructions! The book, like Kefalonian cooking itself, is simple and unpretentious and the illustrations are beautiful.

Lovely Greek Food
This is a lovely book. Greek cooking can be delicious, but so often isn't. These recipes provide the key to wonderful Greek meals, and wafts you straight back to idyllic holidays. Definitely one to take on the self-catering Greek holiday but also, I've found, great in London. I've been trying to get those giant beans right for ages; now, with the authentic recipe, I've cracked it!