Travelers Guide to 33 Traditional Greek Foods
It really shouldn’t have surprised me, the Greek culture being one of the oldest in the world and all, but the Greeks have a ton of traditional foods! What with the different alphabet and the difficult pronunciations, it’s hard to remember what everything is. So here is a guide to some of the traditional Greek food you’ll be ordering and eating when you travel through Greece. Savory Greek Foods Barbounia Barbounia (μπαρμπούνι) are red mullet fish, small little fish that are red in color and delicious fried. There’s a lot of picking meat off the bones and it takes quite a few to make a meal, but the taste is well worth the effort. Biftekia When Yoav, our Tripology Adventures guide, kept offering hamburgers as an option at lunch, I felt a little offended we were being offered an American dish when we were in the heart of Greece. What I eventually realized was we were actually being offered a traditional Greek food called biftekia (μπιφτέκια). We receiv...
