Monastery Cook Becomes Famous Cook Book Author (in Greece)

Unfashionable ingredients such as broad beans, artichokes and okra, which many older Greeks still associate with poverty and often are ignored by the young, remain staples here.
“People are less in touch with their natural surroundings nowadays,” Father Epifanios says. “They used to eat what they found around them and what they could gather.
“Now they try Chinese, Indian food, and dishes from — I don’t know — Finland before they realize that what they really liked all along was the meals their grandmother made them.”(Read whole article here.)