GREECE: Magiritsa, a Traditional Greek Easter Soup (Recipe)

GUEST POST: Our friend Christos Sourligas recently published My Big Fat Greek Cookbook, an anthology of his mother’s recipes. Check it out today on Amazon!

I’m an accidental cookbook writer. A storyteller by profession, I set out to create a cookbook based on all my mother’s Greek food recipes as she entered the twilight of her life. For one year, I braved a series of intense hands-on cooking demos with her to capture an oral history of her gastronomical treasure trove.

The result is “MY BIG FAT GREEK COOKBOOK”. It’s the antithesis of those trendy Mediterranean diets, because most Greeks simply don’t eat that way…certainly not the Greeks of the diaspora, which numbers more than 15 million. We were brought up eating meat, stewed veggies, potatoes—big, hearty, simple meals from…