Greek food culture?

Question

What are the difference between the modern Greek food culture and the ancient Greek food culture?
AND
What are the features of the traditional Greek food?

Please feel free to answer and you will be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

That's alot of info, so here are some great websites:

http://www.sallys-place.com/food/ethnic_cusine/greece.htm

http://greekfood.about.com/od/quenstionsanswers/f/ancientfood.htm

http://greekfood.about.com/od/discovergreekfood/a/afrodisiaka.htm

http://www.greek-recipe.com/static/ancient/ancient2.html

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/7849/cuisine.html

http://www.ed.psu.edu/icik/2004Proceedings/section2-floros-withpics.pdf

http://ancientgreekfood.net/

http://greekfood.about.com/

http://greekfood.about.com/od/discovergreekfood/a/food_intro.htm

http://www.greekcuisine.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_cuisine

http://www.greecefoods.com/

Answer 2

The thing aout Greek food throughout history is that the Greeks did not really develop any new food dish, they borrowed food dishes from many Mediterranean and Middle East cultures but combined them with different spices, especially cinnamon. The Greeks were one of the few cultures of the ancient world to travel extensively and they combined spices from different parts of the world and combined them in different dishes. I have often been struck by how different Greek stuffed grape leave, dolmades, are different from Lebanese, Syrian, and Iranian grape leaves are. Greece was a crossroads of the spice trade and so was Thailand in Asia.

Answer 3

There have been many new things introduced into Greek culture. Think vegetables and even rice ( if you go back far enough).

The most significant about Greek food is almost everything is grilled, herbs are grilled with the food ( as opposed to added later)

Answer 4

you may say that greek nutrition and greek food shares plenty with the neighbouring civilisations, like the civilisations of the Balkan peninsula, the Turkish and the Roman civilization and so on. this is in keeping with products present in Greece like oil, fish, seafood, culmination, vegetables, lamp and so on. and performs an significant place in lots of celebrations. as an occasion for Easter we've a particular soup we prepare dinner, mutually with vegetables and offal on the same time as in Christmas we bake specific cookies spoke of as "kourampiedes". you additionally can say that interior the final years Greek's nutrition behavior are further and further diverting from classic Greek food eating extra junk nutrition and having a much less wholesome weight loss plan. i wish this might allow you to slightly...