[{"id":182240,"title":"Recipes of Love","subtitle":null,"description":"Marika Mitsotaki, wife, mother and cook extraordinaire, serves up a lifetime of memories: about her mother and mentor in things culinary; about the serious blow to her health when as a child she was struck by polio; about her meeting Kostas Mitsotakis, their courtship, marriage and the arrival of their four children; about the difficult years of the dictatorship in Greece, the family's self-exile to Paris and their eventual return to the parental house in Crete. Moreover, the turbulent as well as exciting mosaic of her life as spouse of one of the country's longest serving statesmen is directly connected to important events of Greece's recent history.\u003cbr\u003eBut there is more. As food, eating and family lunches and dinners are a constant point of reference for the Mitsotakis family -as well as any family-- this unique book fittingly offers another taste of history: the traditional recipes of \"kyria Marika\". Yours to try and enjoy not only as part of authentic Greek culture, but also as the perfect -not to mention delicious- excuse that gathered the Mitsotakis family around the table and kept it united.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b185369.jpg","isbn":"978-960-9490-18-4","isbn13":"978-960-9490-18-4","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":168,"publication_year":2012,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"25.0","price_updated_at":"2013-01-03","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":552,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":185369,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/recipes-of-love.json"},{"id":179111,"title":"Ancient Greek Cuisine","subtitle":"Cooking with the Gods","description":"Whenever we refer to the ancient Greek civilisation, the material relics of our ancestors immediately spring to mind; the temples, the monuments and the sculptures. We think of the philosophers and their scriptures; the ancient theatre, the comedies and the tragedies; the exceptional astronomers and mathematicians; the idea of democracy. However, the above don't encapsulate the whole meaning of civilisation. Civilisation is also the way of life, the mentality of a nation, the way we talk, even the way we eat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBesides, the ancient Greeks had a proverb \"Nouc Yyihc Ev looucm Yyiei\", or \"Healthy Mind in Healthy Body\". Culture exists in a healthy body, built by exercise and good nutrition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book was created based on this admission. It is an attempt to offer a glimpse through the keyhole of the ancient Greeks' everyday life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of today's foods were completely alien to the ancient Greeks, the potato for example. Also, unknown, not only in Greece but in the whole of the Mediterranean, were rice, sugar, corn, coffee, tomatoes and other vegetables, oranges and lemons, cocoa and various spices, pasta and many more. What's more, some of the original ingredients used cannot be found today or are extremely difficult to get your hands on, so they've been replaced by contemporary alternatives. The recipes in this book were written with the present-day reality in mind.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b182236.jpg","isbn":"978-960-9663-04-5","isbn13":"978-960-9663-04-5","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":111,"publication_year":2012,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"7.0","price_updated_at":"2012-08-30","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Αρχαία ελληνική κουζίνα: Μαγειρεύοντας με τους θεούς","publisher_id":3341,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":182236,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/ancient-greek-cuisine.json"}]