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Her first book, THE FOODS OF GREECE, published by Stewart, Tabori and Chang in New York, won the Julia Child "First Book" award, in April '94. Her next two books, MEDITERRANEAN PANTRY and MEDITERRANEAN HOT, were both published by Artisan/Workman and later translated into Greek. She is part of the team of Master Chefs --together with Roger Verger, Michel Roux, Richard Olney and others-- creating a small illustrated collection of MEZE AND ANTIPASTI, for the series "Classic Recipes" published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, in London. She has also published in Athens two collections of her food columns that became best sellers in Greece. She is now working on a book about the COOKING OF THE GREEK ISLANDS, to be published in the US the fall of 2000, by Houghton Mifflin.
She has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS, and other major and local TV stations and also taught at Macy's Degustibus, at the French Culinary Institute in New York, and many other cooking Schools around the country, promoting her books and authentic Mediterranean Cuisine.
Cooking was always her passion and she is an avid collector of cookbooks and recipes from all over the world. She has studied the history of ancient Greek and Mediterranean cuisines and has taken part in and given papers to many world conferences on food.
In 1997 she was invited to be the consultant -working with the chefs and developing the menu- for Molyvos, the new upscale Greek restaurant in New York (7th avenue at 55th street) which was awarded three stars by Ruth Reichl of the
New York Times.
You can order her booksby calling Cosmos publishing,
tel : (201) 664-3494 |
