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Making Grilled Sheftalies
Making Grilled Sheftalies from The Cyprus Portal on iSanté. Chef Pambos Charalambous from Flavours Restaurant, Elias Beach Club in Limmasol, Cyprus makes grilled sheftalies. Get the recipe at iSanté.
How to Make Cypriot Coffee
How to Make Cypriot Coffee from The Cyprus Portal on iSanté. In the middle of Cyprus, in a small town, the owner of a local coffee shop shows us how to make Cypriot coffee. |
Cyprus - From the Traditional to the Modern
Even though Cyprus is a small country, with a population of slightly less than 800,000 and an area of 3,572 sq mi (about twice the size of Rhode Island), it has an illustrious history, with evidence of hunter-gatherers on the island as far back as 10,000 BC and villages in 8,200 BC. This predates even Greece's history. Because of its geographic location, in the far eastern portion of the Mediterranean Sea, Cyprus has been a crossroads for many cultures including Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Turkish, Venetian, and British. At various times in its long history Cyprus has been colonized by each of these societies.
Photo: Aphrodite's Rock - According to Greek legend, the goddess of love, Aphrodite, emerged from Cyprus.
Photo credit: Karla Guererri
Wines of Cyprus Primer
Commandaria, is the oldest wine appellation in the world and is the oldest named wine in the world still in production, beginning at least 1,000 years BCE. The wine called Commandaria, made only with Xynesteri and Mavro grapes, is a delicious blockbuster sweet red dessert wine. Tasting like a tawny port, it has lower alcohol levels than the fortified Ports and displayed concentrated raisins and dried cassis with a long satisfying finish. Commandaria St. Nicholas produced by ETKO won a Grand Gold award at the Cyprus Wine Competition 2009.
Etko's Commandaria Wins
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 Commandaria St. Nicholas once again wins a Grand Gold award at the Cyprus Wine Competition 2009.
This is the 4th year the competition has taken place. The president of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Dimitris Christofias, was present as well as ministers, mayors and other government officials. The judges committee consisted of Cypriot, Greek, Italian and British panelists, two of whom were oenologists, two wine writers, two sommeliers and one an OIV representative. There were 136 awarded wines. Two won Grand Gold awards, including the St. Nicholas Commandaria by Etko Wines. Wines from Cyprus were also well received this year at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival and the New York Wine Festival.
Cyprus: Ingredients Meet Ingenuity
Proud Cypriots claim that their culture is the oldest in the world, boasting archaeological evidence of human existence as early as 12,000 years ago. For them the practice of sourcing products locally is not a trend but a long- standing culinary tradition. The all-star cast includes olives, lemon, mint, and Halloumi cheese. Carob sauce is made from the carob plant, which grows wild here, and mastic, the sap of a native tree, is emerging as a signature flavor. Pork and chicken are the favorite animal proteins, despite the island's reputation for savoring goat meat. And indigenous wine varietals such as Xynisteri and Maratheftiko have their place both on the table and in the cooking pot. Whether they stick to tradition or venture toward unusual representation of their national cuisines, chefs from this 9,250-square-kilometer island in the eastern Mediterranean have one thing in common: they are devoted to their island's unique ingredients. Combined in beautifully different ways, traditional products present guests and other chefs with unlimited flavor combinations. Get more information about Cypriot products from the iSanté Cypriot Portal. PDF version >>
Grilled Sheftalies Recipe
Click on the link below to receive a PDF version of Chef Pambos Charalambous's Grilled Sheftalies recipe from Flavours Restaurant, Elias Beach Club in Limmasol, Cyprus.
Watch the video of Chef Pambos making Grilled Sheftalies. PDF version >>
December 4th. Food & Wine Tasting Reception
On December 4th The Cyprus Embassy Trade Center, in collaboration with The Cyprus-US Chamber of Commerce, held a reception featuring food and wine from Cyprus. The event was held at the Helen Mills Event Space on West 26th street. New York Mayor Bloomberg was the honored guest.
Read the review by Doug Paulding.
Keo Comes to North America
KEO Beer, the much-loved brew of Cyprus, has now become available in Ontario, following a surge of demand from visitors to the Mediterranean island who were hoping to recapture some vacation splendor back home.
In the production of KEO Beer, only the finest imported pilsner malt from Europe is chosen, keeping with the tradition and quality known of the pilsner. Highly selected hops and extra choice hops are also imported to be used in the perfect combination to ensure the production of a top-quality beer in every respect.
KEO Beer is the only beer on the island of Cyprus produced by the ?chill sterilization? method, the most expensive system which produces the highest quality beers abroad. In combination with a minimum three month maturation period in underground refrigerated cellars, the chill sterilization method gives KEO Beer its unique flavor and guards against any loss of taste.
KEO Beer, a Gold medal winner among bottled lagers worldwide, is represented in Ontario by Equis Trading, Inc, a New York based marketing firm.
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