It's All Greek to Me

What an amazing cookbook, I enjoyed the author’s descriptions about her family and the pictures of Greece too! I really appreciated all of the healthy salads and other healthy recipes!
The descriptions of the food made me want to eat octopus and leeks, and it was interesting to learn that dandelion greens are healthy! I was glad to hear that you can use substitutions for some of the ingredients, and it was helpful to read the tips at the end of the recipes.
There is a recipe for everyone in this book!

'It's All Greek To Me' easily belongs in every library, especially the home cook's. Debbie Matenopoulos shares tips and back stories coupled with gorgeously shot photos of the dishes themselves. It's like she's invited you over for some excellent family dinners.

I love Greek food, even though I am not Greek. But because my best friend is half Greek, I got an early induction into Greek culture and food. For years I have wanted a short and simple Greek cookbook that was designed for the home cook.

Debbie Matenopoulos has written the book I've wanted for decades. Immensely proud of her heritage, she has beautifully brought Greek cooking to the home cook while showing how it's relevant for today's desires for local, vegetable-forward dishes.

You'll find familiar dishes here from Spanatopika to moussaka, but you'll also find less familiar but still wonderful dishes such as Greek Walnut Cake (on of my favorites). What's best for the home cook is that few of these dishes require food you must buy at specialty shops. That means you'll be able to start cooking from this book right away.

This is a lovely book, the recipes are just the fabulous - everything I expected from a book about Greek food. My son-in-law is Greek so I know a little about the food and the ingredients, and this book just hit the right mark
The book is really beautifully presented with photos of most of the dishes and include holiday snaps of the area, people and author.

I received a free copy of It’s All Greek to Me by Debbie Matenopoulos with Peter Capozzi in exchange for an honest review. The work is as much coffee table book as recipe book. Gorgeous photographs easily outnumber the written recipes, and many of those many recipes look delicious. I was excited to find instructions for some of my favorite Mediterranean foods. I look forward to trying my hand at making many of those dishes!

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5 big, beautiful stars to It’s All Greek to Me! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

I have wanted to read this cookbook since its initial release back in 2014, and I was excited about the re-release with 16 new recipes! It’s All Greek to Me is endorsed in its forward by a cardiologist, and within these pages, you’ll quickly notice no flavor was skimped while still retaining heart healthy benefits.

We traveled to Greece a few years ago, and like everyone says, my favorite thing, other than the beautiful sights, was the food! As a side benefit, this book is full of pictures of Debbie exploring Greece- its people, the culture, and plenty of famous destinations. This is a cookbook you will actually want to read because there are fun anecdotes and stories to consume that are just as yummy as the recipes.

In BenBella’s classic tradition, this book is organized perfectly with stunning color photos. They know cookbooks! Some recipes I flagged to make are Chickpea Fritters (hello, chickpeas!), Baked Feta (I know I’m trying to cut back on dairy, but feta!), Classic Lemon Olive Oil Dressing, Debbie’s family’s Tzatziki Sauce (we are obsessed with tzatziki!), Skorthalia Garlic Sauce made with potatoes (YUM), Greek Vegetable Soup, Fava Split Pea Soup, Greek Style Cauliflower, and Almond Custard Cookies.

Thank you to Debbie Matenopoulos, BenBella Books, and Netgalley for the copy to read and review. I have many hours of inspired and joyful cooking ahead of me!

People love cookbooks and this one everyone is going to want to own. I know I do. I mean you don’t see many cookbooks with recipes for grilled octopus! Love the inclusion of Greek culture as well as a bit of the author’s personal story.

I was given an advanced reading copy from NetGallery in exchange for an honest review.

I love this cookbook. The recipes are simple and taste amazing. The ingredients are extremely common and easy to find (I had the majority already in my pantry). My new favourite salad has to be the Lahanosalata with Latholemeno dressing; so sinple to make but so delicious.

I especially loved the family photos that she included in the cookbook; it felt like she was welcoming you to her table to share the meal with her personally.

Great recipes, great tips, and I love all the photos of Greece and the food included throughout the book! I cannot wait to try a few of the recipes this weekend!

Greek food has become very trendy lately, and for those who want to try it, Debbie Matenopoulos has written an excellent cookbook, It's All Greek to Me: Transform Your Health the Mediterranean Way with My Family's Century-Old Recipes. This delightful cookbook includes all of the standard popular Greek dishes, and also features dozens of recipes that are less well-known.

There are beautiful photographs of most of the dishes, as well as some photos of Greece. The author also includes stories about the food and about Greece, which make the book an entertaining read as well as a cookbook.

Not only are the recipes succinct and easy-to-follow, but Matenopoulos has included the pronunciation of the Greek recipe names as well as the English names. It really helps, since those of us who aren’t Greek have trouble pronouncing Greek words. The recipes are tempting enough that many may decide to prepare Greek meals for an entire month or two. Favorites include Keftethes (kef-TEH-thes) Greek Hamburger Patties, Lahanosalata (la-ha-NOH-sah-lah-TAH) Cabbage and Carrot Salad (served this as a side dish at a family BBQ with raves), Youvarlakia Avgolemono (yoo-var-LAH-kee-ah ah-VGHO-leh-moh-noh) Greek Meatball Soup, and Lemonates Patates (leh-moh-NAH-tehs pah-tah-TES) Lemon Potatoes.

The book includes decadent desserts, appetizers that real people will want to eat, vegetarian dishes, and plenty of soups and salads. So far, every recipe has turned out picture perfect.

If you love reading about Greek food, this is a good cookbook. If you love cooking Greek Food, this is a must-have, excellent cookbook.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

Great recipes and useful tips! Also the photography truly stands out in this book., not only matching pictures with the recipes but also of Greece .This is a great book for anyone looking to switch to a healthier cuisine, or who has a loves Greek cuisine. I will definitely try some of the recipes presented in this book.

Thank you to Debbie Matenopoulos and NetGalley for allowing me to read and review this book. I loved it! I'll be recommending it to everyone that I know that loves good food!

BEAUTIFUL! Having recently begun looking at the Mediterranean Diet/Lifestyle, I was excited to have the opportunity to review Debbie's book. Obviously, having watched her on The View, my initial reason for being interested in the book was because it was written by her! I knew she was Greek, so I figured she'd have great REAL and TRADITIONAL recipes that I could incorporate into my menu!

As I began reading, the very first thing that I noticed was how gorgeous the photos are. This is the kind of book that you could leave on your coffee table and just flip through time and time again. Truly blown away. But, as I dove into the recipes I was sad because I really prefer that each recipes is photographed. There's something about the picture that hooks me into to consider making the recipe.

I'm excited to make many, even most of the recipes in this cookbook. Some of the recipes on the top of my list are Summer Peach Salsa, Aunt Aphrodite's Beet and Apple Salad, Savory Cheese Pie (because cheese plus pie???) and Octopus Onion Stew!

Eager to purchase, I do plan to purchase this one and make many of Debbie's family favorites my family favorites!

Gorgeous book. I loved the beautiful photos, the great stories, and yummy recipes.
Debbie brought me right to Greece to eat and visit with her and her family.
She concentrates on healthy recipes that taste great.

I highly recommend this cook book. Interesting stories of Ms. Matenopoulos' culture, easy to follow recipes...some old, some new to me...and photos that give me a peek into her world. I've been cooking for most of my life, and have a few Greek recipe books on my shelf, but this one, by far, was the most usable. Delicious main and side dishes, and the desserts seem heavenly. I won't be making them, because I know they look better on the page than my thighs, but I like looking at the pictures. None of the recipes intimidated me, and when it comes to feeding a family of five, intimidating is a death knell to whether or not I'll try a new recipe. Kudos to Matenopoulos. Well done.

Nice book. I got it because I really like Greece, it’s inhabitants, it’s culture and, of course, it’s food. The book is a bit too long for my liking. It tells the writer’s story and it’s full of photos but surprisingly, not of the dishes.