There are many Greek foods that are very good and delightful to eat. There are many things to learn about this country. Like the daily eating patterns, the food customs, the table set up, and more! Learning about Greece can be very educational and fun at the same time.
Breakfast
Greek breakfast meals usually consist of a small filled phyllo dough pie. The pies are usually filled with cheese, spinach and maybe ham. There are many typical Greek sweats in bakeries, where they would be sold fresh. Yaourti me meli is yogurt and honey. This is creamy, with rich texture of fresh Greek yogurt and the rich flavors of local honey. The yogurt and honey would be served separately.
Lunch
Choriatiki is local salad. Unlike in America where there would be restaurants that would serve ”Greek” food, it would still not have the real taste of a Greek lunch. This salad is really tasty. It’s made with tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, onions, olives and feta cheese. Really fresh spices like like oregano, basil, dill or thyme are common. Olive oil and vinegar is added to the table. This is usually eaten with some type of meat. The eating trait for Greeks at lunch look pretty good.
Dinner
Dinner for Greeks is often containing a lot of meat. The meat they usually have is cow and ham. Greeks often have salad like the famous traditional Greek salad that often contains croutons or bread crumbs with some light spices. Greeks usually have the most filling dinners.
Greeks don’t specifically have special cooking utensils but there are not specific meals that you would need special utensils for. There is one though and that is a mortar and pestle. This is used for herbs and to make famous Greek spices. It is also used to make some sauces. There is not mu...
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... many of them are put in salads and meats to give it a spicy or sweet taste. Some of the spices would be Allispice, Anise, Cardamom, and more. Allispice kind of looks like cinnamon when you crunch it up, but its not. What it really is a brown spicy spice that delights your mouth and gives a lot of tastes to your meat. Anise is found in these very nice plants that look like a star. Their color is brown and they are sweet spices that many people like. Cardamom is green and this spice is made using and mortar and pestle and this spice is in many salads they are very sweet and salty if you would say.
There are many traditional Greek foods. Greeks have a very unique eating pattern. There are many Greek foods that delight Americans. Greeks also have a very specific table set up. They also have some cooking utensils. Greeks often follow their own traditions and customs.
Ancient Greece today is most known for the culture: the gods, the dramas, how people lived. What most people do not realize is that there were hundreds, maybe even thousands, of different civilizations spread throughout Greece that all had different forms of government. The three main ones were Athens, Sparta, and Miletus. Each was very different from the other. The most powerful out of all three was Sparta: a military based society. The Spartan government had a strong foundation that was all torn down by one bad leader.
Like many other countries, they use elements from other countries’ traditions. Attention to detail is very important to the Marshallese. They put a lot of emphasis on the correct amount of spices, for example. They also find the visual appearance of the dish very important (“Marshall Islands Cuisine”, 2013). The Marshallese do have some similar eating customs to Americans. They typically have coffee or tea in the morning with a small breakfast consisting of bread, fruit, and occasionally rice or fish. It is also usually eaten at home before going to work or school. Lunch is traditionally the biggest meal in the day and is spent with the family. It is a large feast that can last a couple hours. The foods for lunch are usually local and consist of vegetables, fruits, rice, and a protein such as fish or chicken. Then dinner is typically the smaller meal consisting of leftovers from lunch. Sometimes, if the parents are working during the day, lunch is eaten at work and dinner is then the family feast (“Food”,
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Orfanos, Spyros, ed. Reading Greek America: Studies in the Experience of Greeks in the United States. New York: Pella Publishing Company, 2002.
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