Greek history and food
Greek history and foodGreek cuisine:
The Greeks usually eat 3 meals a day. The first meal of the day is Breakfast. A typical Greek breakfast consists of a piece of bread, some goat milk and strong Turkish coffee. The Greeks do not eat a large breakfast typically. Their next meal of the day is Lunch it is usually eaten around twelve to two pm. It is also a light meal like breakfast. Dinner is usually eaten later at night than most people are accustomed to. It is eaten between 8-9 pm. This is the largest meal of the day. The most common meats are lamb and chicken. Fish and seafood are found mostly on the coast and in cities and are inexpensive. Olives are grown in Greece, and olive oil is used a lot in cooking. Salads are usually eaten with the main meal. Main courses include souvlaki, a shish kebab with cubes of meat-often pork or lamb-and vegetables, and stuffed eggplant or tomatoes. Pasta is also popular. Fruit is often served for dessert. Although Greek food is not "low fat" the primary oil used is olive oil, which has been proven to be better for you that rendered animal fat. Cheese is another mainstay of the Greek diet. The average Grecian eats 50 lbs. of cheese a year. This ranks second in world cheese consumption behind France. The most popular Greek cheese is Feta, which is a smooth cottage type of cheese.
Greeks drink a lot of wine. If you are a first-time visitor, you probably better order your wine aretsinoto (without resin), or your mouth will pucker. Retsina, or resinated wine, has a distinctive flavor and tastes better when chilled. Greek food has been influenced by many sources. The area that Greece occupies was the ancient city-states of Athens, Sparta, and Corinth. Their individual styles of cooking helped shape Greek cooking into what it is today.
Undoubtedly baklava is the most famous pastry, a multi-layered ribboned pastry with nuts and oozing with honey syrup. A visit to a Greek pastry shop reveals the how many different ways Greeks use fila dough many of them have aTurkish origin. The honeyed fila pastries and buttery nut cookies compose a separate late afternoon meal accompanied by thick Greek coffee. Fresh fruit -- generally figs, orange, apples, and melon -- usually conclude the late evening dinner.
No part of Greece is more that 85 miles from the coast. This is a good reason that Greeks eat so much seafood. Another reason that the Greeks eat so much seafood is the land in Greece is very poor for farming most crops. Also there is a lack of land in Greece. Greece occupies a very small area only 50,962 square miles. This is ________. Since the Greeks cannot farm a lot of their own food, they have adapted a culture that doesn�t depend upon farmed food. That is why Greek recipes don�t have a lot of flour...
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