Written, compiled and © Stelios Jackson

Cookery and Wines

Cypriot cookery combines recipes and ingredients from Greece, Turkey and the Near East to create a unique and delicious cuisine. Meze is a combination of different dishes all served in appetiser-sized portions that keep coming and coming. Vegetarians are well-served here, though fish and meat dishes do tend to dominate.

Julia and Xenia Chrysanthou Traditional Greek Cooking from Cyprus and Beyond CYPRUS COOKING May30 Hardback; 4to pp174 inc index. Colour photos throughout. An excellent cookbook this. If you've ever been to a 'Greek' resteraunt in the UK you can bet your bottom drachma/lepta/cent that it's run by Cypriots. Herein the food, the recipes and ingredients which make Cypriot cooking one of the world's great cuisines. Turkish and near Eastern influence abound and if you've ever been to Greece and asked for Houmous or Haloumi cheese and been given instead, blank expressions it's because these are dishes found on Cyprus and not in Greece. This book has taken over from the older 'Cypriots at the Table' which was in excess of £25.00 the last time we stocked it. For a more limited budget see ' The Taste of Cyprus' or 'Kopiaste' both excellent Cypriot cookbooks in their own right. I have yet to hear a bad word about this cookbook. S.J.   

Gilli Davies:The Taste of Cyprus- A Seasonal Look at Cypriot Cooking   pp 208 inc index; 8vo Colour photos throughout.A chronological look at Cypiot cooking. Includes a shopping index 

Amaranth Sitas: Kopiaste- The Cookbook of Traditional Cypriot Food Demy 8vo; Paperback. PP 112 inc index; Lavishly illustrated, in colour, throghout. Special Section on customs and traditions