The Culinary Institute of America

Award winning cookbook author Aglaia Kremezi explains some of the fundamentals of Greek cooking.
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The beautiful Greek island of Santorini is world famous for its legendary ruins. The food and wine here are just as extraordinary and well worth the trip. Local vitner Paris Sigalas, makes wine mostly from two native grapes; Assyrtico and Mavrotragano. Yorgos Hatziyannakis, the owner of Selene Restaurant in Fira, bases his dishes on the ancestral cuisine of the island. The Culinary Institute of America, in association with Unilever Food Solutions, presents "Savoring the Best of World Flavors."
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Crete is Greece’s largest island. It was here that researchers first documented the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. In this brief look at their way of cooking you will be struck by the widespread use of leafy greens and other vegetables. The Culinary Institute of America, in association with Unilever Food Solutions, presents "Savoring the Best of World Flavors."
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At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Greece was once the center of the civilized world. The legacy of ancient Greece endures in our language and our ideas. Yet we know surprisingly little about this country’s rich culinary traditions. Travel to Greece where leading chefs and food authorities will explain and demonstrate their culinary techniques in step-by-step detail. The Culinary Institute of America, in association with Unilever Food Solutions, presents "Savoring the Best of World Flavors: Greece."
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Her name is Rosalba Lo Greco and she cooks for Barone Pietro Beneventano at his agriturismo, or farmhouse inn, Case del Feudo, outside Siracusa. She learned to cook, Rosalba says, from watching her grandmother. My mother was a terrible cook, she told us, but every summer she sent me to spend three months with my grandmother in Piazza Armerina and she was a great cook. I’m passionate about good food—I love to cook, I love to feed people. To cook just for the sake of cooking, no—they say what I cook is pretty good, for me it’s just normal. And they’re the smallest secrets that make the difference—for instance, the eggplant in a caponata, it should be a little crunchy, it should have character...
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East of Palermo on Sicily’s north coast is a fishing village called Porticello where the day boats go out every morning to harvest what’s in the nets that were set the day before. Chef Franco Crivello has his restaurant here—he calls it Frank the Fisherman, Francu U Piscaturi, but its proper name is Trattoria del Arco and Franco is truly a chef, not a fisherman at all.
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In the hills north of Ragusa—the Monti Iblei, they’re called—there’s an unusual restaurant that’s famous all over Sicily – maybe all over Italy – famous because nothing is served here but pork. In fact, the restaurant’s motto is: Qui si magnifica il porco—here pork is glorified. And it’s true. From the time it was founded by the great-grandparents of Salvatore LaTerra, Ristorante Majore (My-YORE-ray) has existed by, for, and about nothing but pork, and much of the time pork cooked over live fire, which might be the best way of all.
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Surrounded as it is by three seas—the Tyhrrenian, the Mediterranean, and the Ionian, it’s no wonder that seafood plays a prominent role on the Sicilian table. The variety is simply astounding—anchovies and sardines, squid, calamari and octopus, a huge variety of mussels and clams, tiny sweet shrimp and big, meaty red shrimp, mackerel, prized red mullet, familiar fish like grouper and unfamiliar varieties like scabard fish, a great favorite, or... Eels, a great flavor boost for a zuppa di pesce or Sicilian fish stew.
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