Ancient Flavors

Soultana-Maria Valamoti Broad beans belong to the group of legumes first domesticated in the Near East, and their cultivation later…

Soultana-Maria Valamoti According to ancient Greek myths about the transition from foraging to farming, the first cereal cultivated by humans…

Soultana-Maria Valamoti Peas are one of the legumes that were cultivated in Greece as early as the 7th millennium BC….

Soultana-Maria Valamoti Legumes have been cultivated in Greece for 9,000 years, since the emergence of the first farming societies in…

Soultana-Maria Valamoti, Professor, AUTh Bulgur has been described as the fast food of prehistoric times, since with very little preparation…

Soultana-Maria ValamotiPie, as a general category of recipe found today in many variations throughout Greece, also appears in various forms…

Soultana-Maria ValamotiThroughout antiquity, long before the advent of sugar, grape molasses – a sweet syrup made from grape juice –…

Soultana-Maria Valamoti, Professor, AUTh The word artos (bread) appears as early as Homer’s Odyssey, in which Telemachus, son of Odysseus,…