Fred Plotkin

Authority on Italian food and opera

Aglaia Kremezi is the Aphrodite (goddess of love, beauty and pleasure) of the foods of her native Greece. She is also her nation’s oracle, the definitive expert on all of the distinct flavors of land and sea, how they evolved and how they are subtly different from one place to the next. She has traveled, like Odysseus, to speak to Greek women and men everywhere who till their soil, produce food, fish their seas, and are wise about what the seasons will bring. Kremezi bears witness to her countryfolk in all of her books and is a superb recipe writer, enabling her readers to enjoy this delicious food in their own homes.