Every year, the gastronomic forecasters at The Food People release their annual list of food and beverage trend predictions. Are you wondering what the year ahead holds in store for the food and drinks industry? For the full list of predicted food and beverage trends, please see the infographics below from The Food People.
You don’t have to be a great cook to pull off a fabulous barbecue. The secret is, quite simply, a good marinade. It’s astonishingly easy if you follow some basic rules, which consist of chopping your meat (or prawns or halloumi or fish) into appropriately sized chunks and then slathering the lumps in delicious liquid …
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Honey is a popular sweetener produced from nectar, propolis or “bee glue” and enzymes in a bees’ saliva. Other insects produce honey but bee honey is the more popular kind. Honey is composed of simple sugars easily used by the body. It was the earliest reliable sweetener used in baking, enjoyed as spreads and added …
Home-made ice cream Buttermilk with olive oil and fleur de sel. Here’s the scoop on making fancy, fun ice cream flavors: INGREDIENTS 1 3/4 cups heavy cream 1/2 cup sugar 3 tablespoons light corn syrup 1 1/4 cups buttermilk Fruity, extra-virgin olive oil Flaky sea salt, preferably fleur de sel DIRECTIONS In a small saucepan, …
Grab a fork and have a seat at the table! Friends and loved ones are getting together for an evening of laughter, drinks, and most of all, plate after plate of delectable Greek food. Welcome to the epitome of Greek-style entertaining – the Greek meze table. Translated literally, the word meze (meh-ZEH) means a taste …
INGREDIENTS 1 cup loosely packed fresh basil leaves 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil 2 medium eggplants (1 3/4 to 2 lb total) 1 large tomato (about 4 inches in diameter) and 2 medium tomatoes (about 2 1/2 inches in diameter) 3 oz feta, crumbled (about 3/4 cup) – you could also use goat cheese – …
In a sea-bound country like Greece, with its seemingly endless coastline and hundreds of islands, it stands to reason the bounty of the sea would find its place on the table. Greeks eat lots of fish and seafood, in lots of different ways. Yet, despite their love of all the sea’s treats, they tend to …
Where better to enjoy good food than Greece, the country which invented the cookbook and gave us the words for the enjoyment of good food ‘gastronomy’ and ‘epicurean’? Greek cooking is an ancient cuisine with a wealth of culinary traditions. Food has always been seen as more than simple nourishment. As the focus of some …
Now there are even more reasons to give the Mediterranean diet a try. A new Greek study suggests that the Mediterranean diet helps improve several risk factors linked to diabetes, obesity and heart disease. The new study, which was published Monday by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, found that the Mediterranean diet …
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