Mount Athos Cooking 264 pages Monk Epifaniou

Mount Athos Cooking 264 pages Monk Epifaniou

One hundred and twenty-six recipes, the most representative of which the monks of Mount Athos are accustomed to, from whose diet meat, white and red, are excluded.

The monks of Mount Athos fast for two hundred days a year, so their diet is similar.

The author, addressing his readers, emphasizes that what he seeks is to pay more attention to the traditional cuisine of the Greeks, the so-called Mediterranean.

In the foods that our parents and ancestors prepared and ate. This is the Mount Athos cuisine, which I learned to cook for thirty-three years.

Experts describe it as healthy, Mediterranean, dietary, etc., I do not know how to call it… You say it again as you want, nun, monastic.

Mount Athos or traditional. What matters is that it has a proven effect on lower triglycerides and cholesterol, helps lower blood pressure, and at the same time reduces other harmful ones.

The fully illustrated book is divided into three parts:

a) Fish

b) Legumes and oats

c) Mollusks and shellfish.

The recipes are preceded by two texts, in the form of an introduction, by Theodoros Ioannidis and Thanassis Georgiadis, followed by an epitaph (Mount Athos), informative for the reader who does not know the Orchard of the Virgin.

Nuns' songs, paternal texts, proverbs and other soul benefits are inserted between the recipes, embellishing them appropriately.

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