At the Greek Table

At The Greek Table is a cookbook collaboration between a chef (Paul Delios) and a wine expert (Fotios Stamos) that teaches fans of an old-world cuisine to prepare the dishes they love with the contemporary flair enjoyed by today’s contemporary diner. Delios and Stamos share a decade in the restaurant industry, beginning in the early 2000s at the former Meze Estiatorio—the premiere Greek restaurant of Boston, Mass.— where Delios was a founding partner and executive...
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At The Greek Table is a cookbook collaboration between a chef (Paul Delios) and a wine expert (Fotios Stamos) that teaches fans of an old-world cuisine to prepare the dishes they love with the contemporary flair enjoyed by today’s contemporary diner. Delios and Stamos share a decade in the restaurant industry, beginning in the early 2000s at the former Meze Estiatorio—the premiere Greek restaurant of Boston, Mass.— where Delios was a founding partner and executive chef and Stamos was the beverage director. Delios was lauded for his artistic, outside-the-box preparations of traditional Greek recipes while Stamos helped Meze earn national recognition for its all-Greek wine list. Together, they steered diners toward a new way of thinking about this traditional Mediterranean cuisine. In 2009 they founded AtTheGreekTable.com to share Delios’s recipes and the stories behind his dishes. Since then, the site and its companion Facebook page have become an outlet for thousands of globe-crossing fans eager for fresh takes on traditional Greek recipes that are more aligned with the palates, cooking styles and time constraints of today’s home-cooking Greek enthusiast. This collection pays homage to the immigrants who in the last 100 years introduced the United States to delicious Greek, tavern-style fare, while offering what Delios and Stamos call “new-Greek cuisine”: simple preparations of traditional recipes, infused with local ingredients readers can find in their markets no matter where they live. And by pairing food with wine (as any good Greek would!), At The Greek Table demystifies both Greek food and drink, and makes the cuisine look, feel and taste contemporary enough to be served in anyone’s home, for any occasion.