That’s truly a nice project and everyone can participate by sending a recipe! “Cooking for Greece” is an fundraising initiative by the website People in Need. They want to collect recipes, produce an e-book and donate the revenues to the soup kitchens organized by the Chania Prefecture in Crete.
Cooking for Greece is an initiative by supporters of People in Need in Ireland. Given that one of People in Need’s most urgent fund raising efforts concerns the food kitchens in the Chania prefecture of Crete, they decided to create a cookbook with Healthy, Cheap & Cheerful recipes that anybody can make with a minimum on expense and hassle.
The book will be published as a ebook and sold through various online outlets. All profits will, in their entirety, go towards the food kitchens.
The project is open to anybody who wants to participate, no matter where in the world they are. This is NOT limited to Irish participants only.
Participation is very simple. People are invited to write down their recipe, take some pictures of the process and the finished product, and upload them to the People in Need contributions dropbox. The upload facility will accept the following file extensions; .doc,.docx, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .pdf.
IMPORTANT: Participants are asked to ensure they do not breech copywrite laws and only upload material that is their own, or material they have explicit permission to upload. If the participant wants to, they can leave their picture, name and country (or any of these), which we will be happy to publish in the final product. E-mail details will not be published.
Organizers underline that contributors names may not be published if they do not want to have their names on the e-book.
However a contact e-mail is essential in order to verify eventual missing recipe details like, quantities and other.
Any recipe around? Submit to people-in-need 🙂
PS I understand recipes do not have to be Greek, right?
Recipes can be from any part of the world, full meals, condiments, snacks, anything at all. And you don’t need to be a celebrity chef either. Just get cooking, write down what you do and how you do it, take a few nice pictures and upload to the dropbox. We’ll take it from there. If we need to ask any questions, we’ll email you.
And thank you KTG for posting this, much appreciated.
see? there are always questions to be answered lol
“PS I understand recipes do not have to be Greek, right?”
>> You should tell readers what kind of ingredients are available there? Then, we can tell our recipes, and adjust it accordingly. Foods-cooking are not as strict as building precision tools. Some ingredients can be substituted for those not available.
Does anyone like fried rice? I can show you how to do it! It’s easy.
how about rice-pork soup? This one is good, especially in cold time and for sicked people? This one is easy, too.
It doesn’t matter what ingredietns, it is not a cookbook for a specific area, Greece or Ireland or Spaion or so. It is a cookbook put together by people who care, from all over the world, using ingredients available to them.
If you want to upload your recipes, just follow the link in the article, locate the file(s) on your computer and click “submit”. It is that simple.
Just for clarity, here is the upload link again
http://www.people-in-need.com/stuff-things/cookbook-project/
And thank you for being part of the project!
I dunno.
When I grew up in Chicago in the 1960’s – 1990’s. EVERY single restaurant in Chicago was owned by a Greek. Mexican, Italian, Deli, Hot dog stand. you name it – EVERYTHING! You couldn’t swing a chicken or a lamb around in a restaurant kitchen without injuring a Greek owner.
This is a wonderful idea, but since when did ANYONE need to tell a Greek person how to cook? Give them some ingredients and they will feed the world!
If it weren’t for Greek immigrants to America to make outstanding food, we might not even exist as a nation anymore. We would have withered away to dry grass,
I’m afraid you didn’t get the idea of the book.
Yes, I understand that it would be the proceeds that would help out the soup kitchens. And that is a wonderful thing.
But I was trying to compliment Greek cuisine and the fact that, at least in Chicago, behind seemingly every restaurant there was Greek owner (and many times a Greek family). Some of them absolutely outrageous characters! There was NEVER a dull moment in a small Greek diner!
Hard work, long hours and a lot of passion. Growing up I had a lot of respect for their ability and work ethic. I can still see many of their faces in my mind.
Just a flashback, I guess. Happens when you get old.
🙂
hopefully not too old (120 or something)
There are a lot of Greek restaurants in my town in Canada too. I’m a vegetarian, but will still need to go to one for I understand there is vegetarian stuff too. When I came to Greece for a week I brought 21 cans of Ensure with me for my nutrition because I was told Greeks eat a lot of meat and it is tough for vegetarians to get much. So I just drank a can of ensure for every meal or bought things like yougurt and juice from little stores.
Is quinoa available in Greece? It is kind of expensive here though probably a lot cheaper than meat and it gives one all the proteins one needs.One can do a lot with quinoa. You just throw some water in and keep stirring until the water is gone. I usually put a few vegetables like carrots, peppers, and broccoli in a pot with a bit of olive oil and once they are done throw them into the quinoa.Some people add sugar and add things like fruit.
It doesn’t matter if an ingredient is available here or not. This is not a book to teach Greek people how to cook, it is a cookbook for anybody, anywhere, Greek or Canada or man on the moon. If you have recipes, just go to the link and submit them there.
Thanks for clarifying.