Our Best Traditional Greek Recipes

Greek cuisine, it's the original Mediterranean Diet. These days, when health experts talk about the benefits of eating lots of fresh vegetables and using olive oil as your primary fat, they're talking about the Greek diet, of course. A handful of simple ingredients typify the fresh, vibrant flavors of Greek cooking: olive oil, lemon, feta cheese, oregano and thyme. They give a burst of bright flavor to seafood, salads, and vegetable dishes -- like a taste of the sun. Bordered by beautiful blue seas, Greece is a country of steep, rocky terrain and relatively unfertile soils, which explains a cuisine of fresh, delicious simplicity. But enough, let's get to some of our favorite Greek recipes.