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Traditional bread making in Crete
Besides her mission to birth and raise children, the Cretan village woman was involved in most farming activities and was responsible for all the tasks related to the wellbeing and nourishment of her family. The making of bread was one of those important tasks. The bread making process was tiring since it was done in…
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Types of bread at the Cretan bakery
Food and sharing a meal are an essential part of the Cretan culture and no meal can be called such if there’s no bread on the table. Bread has always played a key role in Cretan gastronomy, so much so that in often the word for bread, psomi, can even imply the whole meal. The…
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Rusks – Paximadia
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…
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Phyllo
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.