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Hello Matt, Hello, or I should say Yah-sas,I really enjoyed your page of Greek food! I found it on the Yahoo Weekly Picks. I had recently lived in Thessaloniki and boy did your web page make me "home-sick!" I am not Greek, but after living there for 5 years, I think I did become Greek. Now all I can think about is a nice big plate of Marides!! But the photo that gave me a laugh was the frappe and cell phone!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Yours was the most accurate and informative page I've seen. Efiaisto!Juli Dear Matt,Just visited your
terrific website as advertised by Yahoo! - it will be a Hi Matt,I visited your site and I
have to say: I got REALLY hungry, man! I'm Greek Epharisto poli for your coffee tip. I'm on Kos and was desperate. Once I got the sound right, your phrase worked like a damn, and I got the best cuppa in a week. I'm off to Rhodes tomorrow, so here I go into your site for more tips. Bless you. PJ Hi Matt, Hi Matt,My 4-year-old daughter
needed to know about some greek dishes for her Hi Matt - Just got a gander at your
site from our lovely Terri. WOW!!This area is full of Greek
diners and I love the food but your site has so much more - thanks for
all the effort.
Grew up in an ethnic neighborhood so learned to appreciate all kinds of
food; then moved to Westchester to find
mostly meat and potatoes - blah. They are more advanced now thank
goodness.I have bookmarked of course and when I get the yen for
pastitsio.... Thanks for the great website! After serving in the U.S. Navy on 2 different ships, we always managed to pull into Greece when we were on a Med cruise. I learned to love Greek food. Out of all the countries I've ever visited in the world, Greece was my favorite because of their hospitality, beauty and most of all, their food To Matt, Matt,I have been exploring your site and just wanted you to know I really enjoyed it. Great job, lots of homey appeal. Yummy photos.I am a serious fan of olives and spinach, love Lebanese and Greek food, and I am on the hunt for the best stuffed grape leaves ever.I was amazed to find, last Friday, in the little Central PA town of Huntingdon I live in, that a tiny Greek restaurant had opened. I ate there two days in a row and now hope to convince them to serve more native dishes and ditch the American grub that plumps out their menu.Best regards to you, Matt, and thanks for your tasty site.Leslie Matt, I have to say thanks for
all the insight into Greece you have given me over the past year.Not
only did I plan my trip, stay in your hotels, use George the taxi
driver and his friend Yannis, find a hospital
when I broke my arm on Naxos, and get a travel agent in Athens to help
get us home after that, but now I find that
after months of recuperation my craving for Greek food can be satisfied
by the page I just found. http://www.greecefoods.com/ Hi, dear matt Excellent site! hi! dear mr BARRRETT my name is Vaios
and iam greek .I found your site very good although your are not greek
.i have
a fish restaurant in piraeus and i have almost 50 kinds of ouzo and
tsipouro ,i apreciate your knowledge about
ouzo in mytilini and i agree with you especially with"veto" (very dry
and clean ouzo) but i think you
have probably forgot "apalarina" and "tetteri nr7" from chios Hey Matt- Just a note to say your
website is great! I have only just begun to read about the food, but
have to
take a break and write you (and also to let my watering mouth dry out!
lol) anyway- i will look at greektravel.com
soon. I am SO interested in greece and its culture, i cant seem to
learn enough about it. someday, SOON i am planning
on going to Thessaloniki, more specifically Plagiari to visit my friend
Markos whom i met on-line (and have since
fell in love with-haha)..have you ever been to that area? well, thanks
for your thourough, informative, and well
written site.. I am (finalmente) going to
Greece,been planning it for nearly 35 yrs.I love Greek cuisine &
your guide is most
informative.I hope to eat octopodi,octopodi and more octopodi.Kalinicta
Dear Mr. Barrett, Hello Matt, you asked for a favorite shop and
I'd like to cast my
after going through your site, i have to say that i enjoyed myself a lot. thank you for telling me about the frapouzo, i think i might try it with my cousin. thank you from Anastasios and Panagiotis. Hi Matt This website helped me out alot for researching greek foods for a school project! Thank you so much for setting up that website. My friend and I are doing a report on Greek food and music. This will help us sooo much. Thanks again! Dear
Mr.
Barrett
Jan. 20, 2003 Hi Matt, bet u thought you, d never here from me, well i wanted to thank u, was going to take your advise on the shis-ka-bobs but ended up with chicken breast STUFFED WITH SPINACH AND PHILOH? cheese melted over it or maybe the rice was philoh or however u spell it. Tasted all sorts of appetizers including squid and who knows what else, everyone's dish looked wonderful, I really enjoyed it and definitely want to go back, also tasted many different desserts, also wonderful. you made it a little easier for me as I had an alternative, thank you so much.Oh,we went to Pegasus in Chicago, thanks again, Fran I've just been browsing your web site and it made ME hungry. Now all I have to do is try some of these recipes. Keep on eating! Charlotte Whitten Dear Matt, Wow!! Hi, I'm called
Scott,
I'm 16 and from somewhere in England. I'm planning to go to a
Greek restaurant within my area and I had no idea what to expect..
until I came across http://www.greecefoods.com . After looking through your VERY clear
and extremely well-written web-site, I am much, MUCH more confident of
what kind
of meal I can hope to look forward to. The way you use
mouth-watering language is nothing short of extra-ordinary! I can't
wait to eat what is sure to be a gorgeous meal. What a lovely website! Hello! I came across your website with all the Greek
food
mouth-watering pictures (as I
was looking for a good Greek screensaver or wallpaper to cheer myself
up) and I have to admit that it is wonderful how much ifnormation
you have accumulated about Greece, though I am still looking through
the food bit! Though I've
never been to Greece, my family is from there.
Part Greek, Part Thracian. By family I mean my great grandmother, who
was from Crete / Rhodes - I have never quite learned the basics of the
family history, but am going to find out more things soon, and I may
have to consult your travel page again! I was born in Bulgaria -
we are very similar to Greece in culture - so I fully recommend a trip
to the country. 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'
for us is a way of life, not just a movie.....as I'm sure you know.... Still, its' good to hold onto the traditions -
they' re good
for keeping a community together and educating people about their
peoples' heritage, and your website is very helpful for that. Thank you, and I'll carry on dreaming of that
wonderful feta
cheese salad..... Best Wishes,
and Happy Easter, Linda Hall Dear Mr Barrett, Dear Matt I found this lovely cafe quite by accident, I was looking for a restaurant I remembered from my last visit. Anyhow, your friend's cafe is up near the Akropolis (just below the old university, as a matter of fact). The cafe and spinakotyropita are just fine, and there is a lovely breeze, a delight on a warm evening. The best way to find it is to go to the top (beginning) of Odos Eolous. lean to the left around the wind tower and head upward. The street sort of curves around but you wind up on Odos Klepsydras, which is about two meters long, and there is the cafe on the corner. Their orange juice is squeezed before your eyes, and their wine is OK too. Very friendly, and very convenient to Monastiraki & the Plaka. The Eden Restaurant chose to close for two weeks; the Bee restaurant/pub at 10:30 PM was stil closed; and I never did find the rembetika place. I am now in Brooklyn and I wish I were in Greece (except that my daughter and grandchildren are here)/ Yasoo Nina my mother got caught bringing back a taperware filled with imam baildi (this is a turkish dish, but of course now its greek, much like the rest of the greek cuisine...;-) so she told them to eat it...she said, its really good stuff don't throw it away. the custom officer actually told her her will try it!! when i go back home to greece i always take for gifts a) costco chocolate chips cookies (greece still can't produce good american chocolage chip cookies and my sister loves them!) b) smoked salmon c) rib eye steaks! yes, you read right: rib eye steaks cannot be found anywhere in greece tasting as good and as tender as ours. d) virginia smoked ham (they love that too!) i got them so "spoiled" with all of the above, that they now expect them. and coming back, frankly the only and i mean ONLY things i bring back is kefalotiri, oregano and some pistachios. you are right on target on those. and if could fill my suitcase with souvlaki, i would too!! still can't figure out why greek-americans can't make souvlaki taste like it does in greece. here they put the processed meat. i think its got something to do with the law prohibiting piles of meat hanging around ... ;-) i will check out your new site. i have already passed the one i read over to others. its funny and good. Matt, thank you for the
guide. Amanda and I used for her ancient Greek Mr.Barrett, Hi Matt Barrett and thank you for the informative site I found while researching for my next presentation at Chef School - I have drawn Greece - one of the countries I have yet to visit - and therefore cannot rely on my local knowledge / memories!! But good to research. Have to put together two recipe items - Mousaka immediately became first choice - and now I have a range of second choices to draw from. I shall enjoy putting together the presentation and hope I can do justice to my chosen topic cheers Viv Gordon thanks for the work, very nicely done! I'm taking "From Myth to History" class at Rutgers, grad program... now doing ancient Greek food research, yr site helps sooo much. best, nareena Hi Matt,Thanks for creating a great page on
Greek Food which I will be putting to an interesting use this summer on
an island in British Columbia. I am teaching a
computer camp for students with visual impairments, and our theme for
camp is the Summer Olympics and Paralympics. For
our lesson on formatting I’m having them create an authentic Greek Menu
complete with pronunciations
and prices. I’m using your page as a primary source
of information because the humour will
appeal to teenagers and because it’s very friendly to JAWS, the screen
reader that blind kids use to access the internet. Your
pages are very clear and have lots to read and aren’t all gummed up
with special buttons and lots of frames. Even your
photo tour of Greek Food is accessible because of the way you set it up
as a table. So...did you have any special training
in making web
pages accessible or are you just a sensible guy? Thanks
again,Mallory Burton Matt Congratulations on your web page, you must be also a photographer, the shots were intresting, colorful and like you said : it makes you hungry, very nice Thanks oHi!
I am doing a project on Greece
for school, and i looked up your page on Yahoo. All the food pictures
were really helpful for my board. I also have to make 2 dishes for my
class, and I chose Baklava, and the Chicken and Araigano... it looked
and sounded very delicious. You did an excellant job on the page,
and I am sure that this project will be a great hit. Well, thanks
again for the help! I will be sure to reccomend your page to others whi
are doing the country
Greece as well!
Thanks Again, Your web site is worth it! I
did a google search on Greek food, and I Thanks to your site, my 12
yr. old nephew was able to do a research paper on Greek Cuisine. Thank you so much! this website rox! I take a Greek class at my school. I am in 8 grade. I am in a group with my friends, and we're doing a Greek restauraunt for a project. You saved my life! just kidding. thanks anyway! and except for the fish, everything looked so good! now i'm starved! -marissa Let me tell you - THANK YOU - for the great job you've done on your web site. I'm starting a job in a greek restaurant as a waitress and I know nothing about greek food - except they eat gyros, cheese, olives and drink wine! I'm half italian so I have a little basic european knowledge. I haven't had a chance to go through your whole site, but the pages that I felt sooooo helpful were the pictures of dishes and the What it is and How to Say it. So, once again - GREAT JOB and THANK YOU : |
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