Adventures at the Greek Table

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Category: Literature

Published on Friday, 20 November 2015 17:09

Have you ever imagined to set off on a trip though the most beautiful and distant corners of Greece tasting at the same time the specialities of various Greek regions? 

Christopher Bakken in his Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek table is taking you to the tastiest corners of the country. Prepare yourself for a bite of the prozymi bread, the striped red mullet, stinky cheese from Naxos, Kytherian thyme honey, and finally, the goat meat from Chios! 

Eight chapters, every dedicated to a different place and people. However, what seems to be the most important is a different culinary experience awaiting the reader in every chapter. Working, travelling, and experiencing Greece with the local cooks and artisans (or simply the real Greeks, as all of them seem to be more than professional cooks), Bakken explores secrets of simple, but classy Greek tastes; he immerses into history to explain the intricacy of the Greek culture and greatly influenced Greek cuisine. 

Adventures at the Greek Table is a combination of travel reportage, memoir, and a cookbook. Containing recipes for not that popular Greek dishes, the book is definitely a must-have for all the foodies to replenish their travel-culinary book collection. 

Let yourself enjoy the Greek tastes – set off on a journey at the Greek table!

Joanna Broniewska

About the author

Christopher Bakken born in 1967 in Madison, Wisconsin, is an American writer, poet, translator, and professor at Allegheny Collage in the state of Pennsylvania. In 2001 he published After Greece, his first poetry collection that shot him to fame winning the T. S. Eliot Prize.