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Greek Moussaka: Eggplant and Béchamel Layers
Greece's most celebrated casserole: tender eggplant and potatoes layered with spiced meat sauce and creamy béchamel, baked until golden.
Jul 17, 2024
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Gigantes Plaki: The Greek Baked Beans That Make a Case for Dried Beans Over Tinned Every Time
Giant runner beans from the lakes of northern Greece, soaked overnight, simmered until tender and then baked slowly in tomato, onion, dill and a great deal of olive oil. A vegan main, a meze, and the best argument for the dried bean aisle.
Sep 6, 2026
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Turkish or Greek Baklava? The Argument Is Older Than Both States
Pistachio against walnut, sugar syrup against honey, semolina in the layers or not. The differences are real and worth knowing. The ownership question is less answerable than either side would like.
Aug 14, 2026
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The Oldest Written Hummus Recipe Is Egyptian, From a Cookbook Roughly Seven Hundred Years Old
It contains four things and one of them is not optional. The supermarket version usually gets the ratio wrong, the ownership argument is genuinely political, and the earliest written record does not point where most people expect.
Aug 21, 2026
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Spanakopita Done Properly: Squeeze the Spinach, Buy Real Feta, and Stop Being Afraid of Filo
The Greek spinach and feta pie fails for two reasons: wet spinach and cheap cheese. Fix both and the filo takes care of itself. A full-tray recipe with dill, spring onions and a properly crisp top, plus the rules for handling the pastry.
Sep 6, 2026
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Shawarma, Gyro, Doner and Al Pastor Are the Same Machine in Four Languages
Three of those words literally mean turning. The fourth means shepherd, and it exists because a hundred thousand Lebanese migrants arrived in Mexico and their children swapped the lamb for pork and added pineapple.
Aug 21, 2026
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Baklava: Forty Sheets of Filo and One Rule About Temperature
Layered filo, clarified butter, crushed nuts and syrup. It is not a difficult dessert, it is a patient one, and the single thing that decides crisp or soggy happens in the last thirty seconds.
Aug 13, 2026
