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Another essential feature of the Cretan cuisine was the moderate use of alcohol, mainly red wine which accompanied meals. Finally, the most common dessert was yogurt and fresh fruits, while traditional pastry based on honey had been consumed a few times a week.
Dakos, [183] [184] [185] or ntakos, traditional Cretan salad and appetizer. Pikantiki (also known as politiki ), made with white cabbage and purple cabbage finely chopped, pickled Florina peppers, carrot, celery, parsley, finely chopped garlic, lemon juice, white vinegar, olive oil, salt.
Dakos or ntakos (Greek: ντάκος), also known as koukouvagia or koukouvayia (κουκουβάγια, "owl") or kouloukopsomo (from koulouki + psomi, pup + bread, allegedly the bread given to puppies), is a meze consisting of a slice of soaked dried bread or barley rusk topped with chopped tomatoes and crumbled feta or mizithra cheese, and flavored with herbs such as dried oregano.
The Cretan version (there are also gravieras made elsewhere: Naxos, Agrafa etc.) is made from sheep's milk, or sheep's milk with a small amount of goat's milk. Kasseri (κασέρι) Kasseri is a medium-hard pale yellow cheese made from unpasteurized sheep's milk with very little, if any, goat's milk mixed in. Kefalotyri (κεφαλοτύρι)
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Ancient Greek cuisine was characterized by its frugality for most, reflecting agricultural hardship, but a great diversity of ingredients was known, and wealthy Greeks were known to celebrate with elaborate meals and feasts.
A dish from the Chilean archipelago of Chiloé might just be one of the world's oldest recipes. Archaeologists found a 6,000-year old cooking pit there with what held an early form of curanto, a ...
[3]: 169 The Prodromic poems also depict an "unusual" dish of a fish stew with cheeses as well as a different dish involving fish seasoned with cloves, cinnamon, and other spices. [ 3 ] : 169 Poorer urban households also ate tarichos ( τάριχος ) – salted, pickled fish sold by grocers instead of fishmongers.