Handmade macaroni are the pasta that used to be made on Chios before industrially produced pasta arrived. The women of Chios made them by hand and, for this reason, they were called “handmade,”…

Pastelaries are made with figs, sesame, almonds, cinnamon, clove, and are flavored with bay leaves and mastic. For many years, along with carobs and raisins, they were the mid-morning snack of young…

These are among the most common meze you will find on a Chian table. In a small saganaki pan, we cook a thin, crêpe-like omelette, on which we place spicy beef mince and roll it up inside the pan. It…

The sweet that the people of Chios offer as a gift when they visit their friends is “masourakia”. They are made with a traditional recipe from Chios and are wonderfully fragrant with mastic and…

Chios is famous for its delicacies, and one of these is kopanistopita, which is essentially a fried cheese pie made with a distinctive spicy cheese called kopanisti. It is also made in small pieces,…

In the old days, kneading special sweet breads and cookies for Easter symbolized rebirth and blessing. The flour “comes to life” and is transformed into bread or a cookie, an emblem of the…

Cuisine from Chios is defined in part by the characteristic products the island produces. Eggplant pilaf is a tasty traditional recipe that comes from the villages of southern Chios.

Mamousia are festive Greek cookies traditionally prepared on the island of Chios and are considered Chios’ Christmas sweet. The inhabitants of Chios usually offer these cookies as part of the…

The φάβα word refers to the way of cooking broken legume seeds. The best-known “lathouri” of Lemnos is “afkos” (Lathyrus ochrus (L.) D.C.), which is sown during the months of November–December. At…

The most famous food of Lemnos is the κόκορας με φλωμάριαlocal little pasta that is kneaded with the island’s renowned local wheat and goat’s or sheep’s milk. In its poorer, everyday version, the…

This is a distinct bean variety traditionally found only on Lemnos, with the scientific name Vigna Unguiculata. It looks similar to the well-known black-eyed bean, but it is dry-climate tolerant,…