The rugged landscape of Crete made travel difficult and time consuming for the people in centuries past.  Often family members would be absent for days or weeks at a time tending their fields, livestock or exercising their civic duties in the urban areas, far from home.  Fresh bread, a staple in the diet of those…

Phyllo in Greek means leaf-like and it is the perfect word to describe the paper thin leafy sheets of dough which during the preparation process  are sandwiched together and they puff up during  cooking  to resemble the thickly compressed pages in an old book.