Tag Archives: Asia Minor

My Perfect Greek Melomakarona: Traditional cookies full with all Christmas flavors of cinnamon, cloves, orange and cognac, sprinkled with crushed walnuts. Soaked in light honey syrup. There are no festive days without a plate full of these sweets on the table. The original recipe comes from my mother and she …

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Samali is a semolina-cake scented with mastic, one of the traditional Greek so-called “tray sweets”, even though not so famous as its glamorous cousins, the baklava or kataifi. It is a modest sweet soaked in fragrant syrup and modest because it has nuts only as decoration and not as main …

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Britons who built the famous Stonehenge were product of ancient wave of migrant farmers, that is of Greeks from Asia Minor, DNA tests have revealed. Ancient skeletons have revealed that the arrival of population from the eastern Mediterranean Sea replaced the local hunter-gatherer population of British Isles. The ancestors of …

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Russian constructors have found  the head of a 2,500-year-old terracotta statue of a Greek god during underwater construction operation off the Crimean Peninsula, according to recent media reports in Russia. Chief of the underwater archaeology unit of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sergei Olkhovskiy has announced that the discovery of …

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“Tomorrow is the anniversary! Tomorrow!” my aunt suddenly shouts as my cousin gives us a ride from a social obligation in the broader area of Piraeus. “What anniversary?” I ask and the aunt shoots back “The Block of Kokkinia!” I hear a tone of anticipation and even anger in her …

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