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There is food and drink in Cyprus to cater for ever taste. Fruit and vegetables can be found in abundance. The local markets are the best place to find fresh local produce at a fair price. |
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| Beer | Carlsberg.com.cy Keo ltd Leon Beer |
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| Books on Cookery and Wines | Hellenic Book Service | ||||||||
| Brandy | Adonis Brandy-V.S.O.P Brandy-V.O.47 Brandy SODAP | ||||||||
| Brandy
Sour |
Cyprus Brandy and lemon squash (made from Cyprus lemons). Add some drops of angostura bitters, top up with soda water and ice cubes | ||||||||
| Cyprus Coffee | Cyprus Coffee | ||||||||
| Frappe - Iced Greek Coffee | bellaonline.com | ||||||||
| Food and drink | cyprusexplorer.com Fresh Produce From The Island Of Cyprus | ||||||||
| Food and Drink Books | hellenicbookservice.com | ||||||||
| Food Glossary | All you need to know about Greek eating and cooking Matt Barrett | ||||||||
| Food Safety & Drinking Water | kypros.org |
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| Halloumi cheese | Cyprus Halloumi cytanet.com.cy | ||||||||
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| Honey |
Islanders in ancient times would use and protect the numerous natural hives on the island that could be found in tree trunks and rock crevices. | ||||||||
| kafenes | The Coffee Shop Vtourist.cy.net | ||||||||
| Loukoumia (Cyprus Delight) | loukoumia.com agrino.org | ||||||||
| Pasteli | (carob-honey and sesame). anogyra.org | ||||||||
| Olive Oil | Some extracts from Cyprus Mail about Cyprus Olive Oil Follow up report Take Seven Extra Virgin Olive Oils | ||||||||
| Ouzo | SODAP | ||||||||
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| Sprits | Filfar Liqueur Ouzo: Pure grape alcohol with aniseed Fact Index.com | ||||||||
| Traditional
Dough's of Cyprus Vasilopita or Saint Basil’s Cake. |
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| Vine & Wine | Vtourist.cy.net Nicos Neocleous | ||||||||
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| Wines | Tsiakkas Winery LOEL Fikardos Winery | ||||||||
| Wine History | etkowines.com
Mediterranean's oldest established wine makers cyprus-mail.com |
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| Yogurt - Yiaourti | cyprus-mail.com | ||||||||
| Zivania | Sodap.com.cy Loel.com | ||||||||
| How
to make Cyprus/Greek
Coffee: Greek coffee is ordered ‘sketo’, ‘metrio’ or ‘glyko’ Using a coffee cup as a measure pour water into a small coffee pan. Bring the water to the boil. For a ‘sketo’ put one to two teaspoons of coffee into the boiling water and stir well, until it froths up. For a ‘metrio’ add one spoon of sugar. For a ‘glyko’ add two spoons of sugar. Coffee is always served with a glass of cold water. |
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| Dolmades | Vine leaves stuffed with rice or meat - normally served cold. Fresh ones are only available early in the season (May, June) when the vine leaves are fresh, otherwise they are tinned! | ||||||||
| Eliotes | Recipe cyber-kitchen.com | ||||||||
| Feta Cheese | Feta is one of the most famous cheeses in Greece. It is made in various sizes, often as a loaf-shape. Feta is solid, but crumbly with some fissures. Pure white, it has a milky fresh acidity. Feta was originally made with either ewe's milk or a mixture of ewe's and goat's milk, but today most feta is made with pasteurized milk and tastes of little besides salt. Some people are put off by the strong salt content but the salt is intended only as a preservative and is not supposed to overpower the taste of the cheese. Feta can be soaked in fresh, cold water or milk for a few minutes or longer, if necessary, to make it less salty. It has a fat content of 40 - 50%. | ||||||||
| Keftethes: | Fried meatballs with garlic and herbs. | ||||||||
| Scorthalia: | Very garlicky potato based one. Served cold | ||||||||
| Tiropitta: | Filo pastry pies stuffed with feta cheese, Spanakopitta are the same but with a little spinach added. | ||||||||
| Tzatziki | Cucumber and Yoghurt dip. Made from thick, rich sheep’s milk yoghurt | ||||||||
| Olive
Oil Extracts taken from an articl in the Cyprus Mail, Written by Maria Socratous Many misconceptions concerning olive oil were aired during the meeting. “Cypriots in general prefer to use nut and seed oil rather than olive oil in cooking, thinking that olive oil deteriorates when fried. It does deteriorate at 230°C but before it reaches that point it gives the signal of smoke at 200°C and it is a warning of what will follow. The other oils, reach the deteriorating point first at 168°C and reach their smoking point at 235°C, by which time it is too late,” Petros said. I was under the impression that fresh olive oil needs to mature (for a couple of months) to lose its bitter aftertaste but the guest speaker crushed this theory. “Oils don’t mature, they are like white wine and the bitterness is a sign of freshness that consumers should look for,” he added. Olive oil with a difference Petros Maliotis set up the Archontiko company in 2001 and started marketing his olive oil in 2002. At a conference in Sicily he realised there was room for improvement in Cyprus’ olive oil market, which had been dominated by the same company for years. He decided to select the best from the crops of a number of local growers to create a unique olive oil. The company now markets three types of olive oil: To Archontiko, Zoe and Eleousa. All three oils go under the category of extra virgin. The Archontiko comes under two labels of Koroneiki and Cyprus. Each contains olive oil produced from a single variety of olives, giving users the opportunity to discover the characteristics of the two olive varieties grown locally. The Cyprus variety has an intense fruity aroma and is ideal for salad dressings, legume and pasta dishes. The Koroneiki has a piquant taste with the aroma of freshly picked vegetables. It is ideal to accompany fresh fish and salads. The olive oil is presented in dark glass bottles to protect the product from direct sunlight. Zoe again comes in dark bottles but is produced from a combination of the two varieties. Eleousa is bottled in plastic bottles and is recommended for general use due to its low price. You can find them at all major supermarkets but they can also deliver anywhere in Cyprus. Or a gift packaged selection can be delivered. To Archontiko £2.95 for 500ml Zoe £3.15 for 750ml Eleousa £3.00 for one litre |
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