New Digital Kitchen Scales

Learn about feta, other Greek cheeses, olives, olive oil, grains, wines & spirits and more Greek gourmet ingredients as an introduction to all that’s healthy, delicious, and unique about Greek foods. This video is an introduction to the Greek gourmet pantry for people who love to cook. Most of these ingredients and food products are available in Greek shops across America and Europe, and at the Hellenic Gourmet Shop at the Athens Venizelos International Airport EU membership ushered in a torrent of new foods, many available for the first time on supermarket shelves. Restaurant menus from the 1990s read like a catalogue of novel ingredients that were embraced more or less indiscriminately. In the early 1990s I reviewed dishes such as spinach-cheese pies in wonton wrappers, potato pancakes with smoked trout and heavy cream, and baked wheels of camembert with berry sauce. There was smoked salmon or salmon roe on what seemed like every other plate of pasta, with the then-requisite vodka-cream sauce. As the ’90s progressed and stocks rose, restaurants reflected new wealth and unabashed hubris. Bouncers became fixtures at the doors, controlling who was allowed in. At one now-defunct restaurant, where my ancient Volkswagen Beetle was the only jalopy in a row of gleaming BMWs, the chef served me fish on a plate garnished with a large rock. Lavishly designed restaurants opened one after another. Mostly, the food was flashy with little substance, a metaphor for what was happening …

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