Greek Tips & Tricks

Many years ago in 1856 in the Greek region, Tirnavos, a gentleman named Nikolaos Katsaros found a special recipe for something new in Greece. He decided to keep the recipe a secret, and thus began to sell this new type...

When you think of beautiful Greece, you think of Crete, Athens, but there is a beautiful island with a lovely location facing the beautiful Mediterranean Sea, Santorini. The island is very well known for the beautiful houses and buildings that...

Every year the Greeks celebrate the Virgin Mary Day (''Panagia'' in Greek) in a very enthusiastic but also religious way. "Dekapentavgoustos", as the day refers to in Greek (simply means "August 15th"), is a Greek National Holiday and a huge...

Back in 1632, two brothers from the Venetian Zangaroli family traveled to Crete, where they built the impressive architecture, Agia Triada Monastery, which still stands today. The two brothers had converted to the Orthodox faith, and built the monastery on...

The story of MAMOS begins back in 1876 in the large port city of Patras, which is today the third largest city in Greece. MAMOS is named after Greece's first certified brewer, Petros Mamos, whose father is said to be...

The kumquat fruit is not typically eaten raw, although it has a sweet skin, it has a sour inside. The fruit, which originates from Asia, was grafted and planted on Corfu by an English botanist named Sydney Merlin, who has...

Made on the previously mentioned Tsikoudia, Rakomelo is a little side-step to the classic brandy. Because if you mix a Cretan thyme honey in your Tsikoudia, you get a slightly sweeter version from the brandy called Rakomelo ( meli is...

One of the Greek spirits that has become world-renowned in both name and character is METAXA, also called 'The Original Greek Spirit'. First compared to cognac, and subsequently compared to brandy, METAXA is both a name for a specific brand...