Apollonia / Sifnos
Where the Cookbook Got Its Name
Portrait
Nikolaos Tselementes was born here and his 1910 manual so dominated Greek domestic cooking that his surname became the ordinary word for a cookbook, which no other cook in any language has managed. The island also turns clay: the chickpea stew that bakes overnight in a sealed pot exists because Sifnos made the pot first.
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