Soups

Name	Image	Region	Description
Avgolemono Avgolemono Avgolemono is a family of Mediterranean sauces and soups made with egg and lemon juice mixed with broth, heated until they thicken. Avgolémono 'egg-lemon' is the Greek name; in Arabic, it is called tarbiya or beida bi-lemoune 'egg with lemon'; and in Turkish terbiye...			'egg-lemon' soup: chicken, meat, vegetable, or fish broth thickened with egg Egg (food) Eggs are laid by females of many different species, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, and have probably been eaten by mankind for millennia. Bird and reptile eggs consist of a protective eggshell, albumen , and vitellus , contained within various thin membranes... s, lemon Lemon The lemon is both a small evergreen tree native to Asia, and the tree's ellipsoidal yellow fruit. The fruit is used for culinary and non-culinary purposes throughout the world – primarily for its juice, though the pulp and rind are also used, mainly in cooking and baking...  juice, and rice.
Poo de Florou			a lovely onion soup made with lamb meat
Colomo			soup.
Fakes			a lentil soup and one of the famous everyday Greek soups, usually served with vinegar and feta cheese.
Fasolada			a bean soup defined in many cookery books as the traditional Greek dish. It is made of beans, tomatoes, carrot, celery and a lot of olive oil.
Magiritsa Magiritsa Magiritsa is a Greek soup made from lamb offal, associated with the Easter tradition of the Greek Orthodox Church. Accordingly, Greek-Americans and Greek-Canadians sometimes call it "Easter soup", "Easter Sunday soup", or "Easter lamb soup"...			a traditional Easter soup made with lamb offal and thickened with avgolemono Avgolemono Avgolemono is a family of Mediterranean sauces and soups made with egg and lemon juice mixed with broth, heated until they thicken. Avgolémono 'egg-lemon' is the Greek name; in Arabic, it is called tarbiya or beida bi-lemoune 'egg with lemon'; and in Turkish terbiye... .
Patsas			a tripe Tripe Tripe is a type of edible offal from the stomachs of various farm animals.-Beef tripe:...  soup.
Psarosoupa Psarosoupa Psarosoupa or fish soup is a Greek soup, its broth thickened with eggs and lemon. It can be prepared with varying vegetables like carrots, parsley, celery, and onion but almost always contains rice, sea fish and potatoes. The fish soup can be cooked with a variety of fish types. Varieties include...			a 'fish soup'. It can be cooked with a variety of fish types, and several kinds of vegetables (carrots, parsley Parsley Parsley is a species of Petroselinum in the family Apiaceae, native to the central Mediterranean region , naturalized elsewhere in Europe, and widely cultivated as an herb, a spice and a vegetable.- Description :Garden parsley is a bright green hairless biennial herbaceous plant in temperate... , celery Celery Apium graveolens is a plant species in the family Apiaceae commonly known as celery or celeriac , depending on whether the petioles or roots are eaten: celery refers to the former and celeriac to the latter. Apium graveolens grows to 1 m tall... , potatoes, onion), several varieties include the classic kakavia which is drizzled with olive oil Olive oil Olive oil is an oil obtained from the olive , a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin. It is commonly used in cooking, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and soaps and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps... .
Revithia Revithia Revithia is a Greek dish consisting of chickpeas baked with onions in a quantity of olive oil and flavoured with bay leaf and rosemary. Traditionally, the pot is taken to be cooked over-night in the local bakery oven. Eaten throughout the winter months, Revithia is a good Lenten...			a chickpea soup.
Trahana			a mixture of fermented grain and yoghurt.

Vegetarian main dishes

Very popular during fasting periods, such as the Great Lent

Great Lent

Great Lent, or the Great Fast, is the most important fasting season in the church year in Eastern Christianity, which prepares Christians for the greatest feast of the church year, Pascha . In many ways Great Lent is similar to Lent in Western Christianity...

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Name	Image	Region	Description
Aginares A La Polita			artichokes with olive oil.
Arakas Me Aginares			fresh peas PEAS P.E.A.S. is an acronym in artificial intelligence that stands for Performance, Environment, Actuators, Sensors.-Performance:Performance is a function that measures the quality of the actions the agent did....  with artichokes in the oven.
Bamies			okra Okra Okra is a flowering plant in the mallow family. It is valued for its edible green seed pods. The geographical origin of okra is disputed, with supporters of South Asian, Ethiopian and West African origins...  with tomato sauce (sometimes with potatoes and/or chicken/lamb).
Briám			an oven-baked ratatouille Ratatouille Ratatouille is a traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish, originating in Nice. The full name of the dish is ratatouille niçoise.- Origin :...  of summer vegetables based on sliced potatoes and zucchini in olive oil. Usually includes eggplant, tomatoes, onions, and ample aromatic herbs and seasonings.
Domatokeftedhes			tomato fritters with mint, fried in olive oil and typically served with fava (split pea paste). Mainly a Cycladic Island dish.
Fasolakia freska			fresh green beans stewed with potatoes, zucchini and tomato sauce.
Gigandes plaki Gigandes plaki Gigandes plaki, also spelled Gigantes or Yigandes is a Greek dish known in English as giant baked beans. The name Gigantes comes from the Greek word for giant, hence giant beans...			baked beans with tomato sauce and various herbs. Often made spicy with various peppers.
Horta			quite often consumed as a light main meal, with boiled potatoes and bread Bread Bread is a staple food prepared by cooking a dough of flour and water and often additional ingredients. Doughs are usually baked, but in some cuisines breads are steamed , fried , or baked on an unoiled frying pan . It may be leavened or unleavened... .
Lachanorizo (Λαχανόριζο)			(Cabbage with rice)
Prassorizo (Πρασόριζο)			(Leeks with rice)
Lachanodolmades Sarma (food) Sarma is a dish of grape, cabbage or chard leaves rolled around a filling usually based on minced meat. It is found in the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire from the Middle East to the Balkans and Central Europe.-Etymology and names:...			Cabbage rolls, stuffed with rice and sometimes meat, spiced with various herbs and served with avgolemono Avgolemono Avgolemono is a family of Mediterranean sauces and soups made with egg and lemon juice mixed with broth, heated until they thicken. Avgolémono 'egg-lemon' is the Greek name; in Arabic, it is called tarbiya or beida bi-lemoune 'egg with lemon'; and in Turkish terbiye...  sauce or simmered in a light tomato broth.
Spanakorizo Spanakorizo Spanakorizo, is a Greek dish known in English as “spinach risotto”. The name comes from the Greek word for spinace and rice, and is a vegetarian dish that is often cooked in Greece-Cooking methods and ingredients:...			Spinach and rice stew cooked in lemon and olive oil sauce.
Yemista			Baked stuffed vegetables. Usually tomatoes, peppers, or other vegetables hollowed out and baked with a rice and herb filling.

Meat dishes

Name	Image	Region	Description
Ameletita Ameletita Ameletita is a delicacy served in Cyprus and Greece made from grilled lamb's testicles....			a delicacy served in Greece and Cyprus made from grilled lamb's testicles.
Baked lamb Domestic sheep Sheep are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Although the name "sheep" applies to many species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to Ovis aries...  with potatoes (Αρνί στο φούρνο με πατάτες)			One of the most common Greek dishes. There are many variations with additional ingredients.
Bekri Meze			'drunkard's snack', diced beef marinated in wine, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves, olive oil and cooked slowly.
Giouvetsi Giouvetsi Giouvetsi is a baked Greek meat dish made with either chicken, lamb or beef. The recipe is not complicated, but requires some preparation and a lot of cooking time. Necessary ingredients are the meat, pasta , and the tomato sauce...			baked lamb in clay pot with Kritharaki - orzo.
Païdakia			Grilled lamb chop Meat chop A meat chop is a cut of meat cut perpendicularly to the spine, and usually containing a rib or riblet part of a vertebra and served as an individual portion. The most common kinds of meat chops are pork and lamb. A thin boneless chop, or one with only the rib bone, may be called a cutlet, though... s with lemon, oregano, salt and pepper.
Htapothi sti Skhara:			Grilled octopus Octopus The octopus is a cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda. Octopuses have two eyes and four pairs of arms, and like other cephalopods they are bilaterally symmetric. An octopus has a hard beak, with its mouth at the center point of the arms...  in vinegar, oil and oregano. Accompanied by Ouzo Ouzo Ouzo is an anise-flavored aperitif that is widely consumed in Greece and Cyprus, and a symbol of Greek culture.-History:Traditionally, tsipouro is said to have been the pet project of a group of 14th century monks living in a monastery on holy Mount Athos. One version of it is flavored with anise... .
Gyros			meat roasted on a vertically turning spit and served with sauce (often tzatziki Tzatziki Tzatziki, tzadziki, or tsatsiki is a Greek meze or appetizer, also used as a sauce for souvlaki and gyros. Tzatziki is made of strained yoghurt mixed with cucumbers, garlic, salt, usually olive oil, pepper, sometimes lemon juice, and parsley. Tzatziki is always served cold... ) and garnishes (tomato, onions) on pita bread; a popular fast food Fast food Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to the customer in a... .
Kefalonian Kreatopita			Meat pie using veal, lamb, goat or pork meat (or a combination thereof) with rice and a light tomato sauce wrapped in pastry kneaded with white wine. Popular dish on the island of Kefalonia Kefalonia The island of Cephalonia, also known as Kefalonia, Cephallenia, Cephallonia, Kefallinia, or Kefallonia , is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece, with an area of . It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit... .
Kleftiko			literally meaning of the klepht Klepht Klephts were self-appointed armatoloi, anti-Ottoman insurgents, and warlike mountain-folk who lived in the countryside when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire... s, this is lamb slow-baked on the bone Meat on the bone Meat on the bone, also called bone-in meat is meat that is sold with some or all of the bones included in the cut or portion, i.e. meat that has not been filleted. The phrase "on the bone" can also be applied to specific types of meat, most commonly ham on the bone, and to fish... , first marinated in garlic and lemon juice, originally cooked in a pit oven.
Kokoretsi Kokoretsi Kokoretsi or kokoreç is a dish of the Balkans and Anatolia consisting mainly of lamb or goat intestines, often wrapping seasoned offal, including sweetbreads, hearts, lungs and/or kidneys...			seasoned lamb innards
Kotopoulo pilafi			('Chicken Pilaf'), mostly popular on the island of Crete Crete Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits... .
Keftedes			fried meatballs with oregano and mint.
Moussaka Moussaka Moussaka is an eggplant based dish of the Balkans, Eastern Mediterranean, and the Middle East. The best known variation outside the region is the Greek one.-Names and etymology:...			eggplant casserole. There are other variations besides eggplant, such as zucchini Zucchini The zucchini is a summer squash which often grows to nearly a meter in length, but which is usually harvested at half that size or less. It is a hybrid of the cucumber. Along with certain other squashes, it belongs to the species Cucurbita pepo. Zucchini can be dark or light green...  or rice, but the eggplant version melitzanes moussaka is most popular.
Pastitsio Pastitsio Pastitsio , sometimes spelt Pastichio, is a Greek and Mediterranean baked pasta dish including ground beef and béchamel sauce in its best-known form...			a baked pasta dish with a filling of ground meat and a Bechamel sauce Béchamel sauce Béchamel sauce , also known as white sauce, is one of the mother sauces of French cuisine and is used in many recipes of Italian cuisine, for example lasagne. It is used as the base for other sauces . It is traditionally made by whisking scalded milk gradually into a white roux...  top.
Pork with celery avgolemono			A stew of pork chunks and celery in an egg-lemon sauce Avgolemono Avgolemono is a family of Mediterranean sauces and soups made with egg and lemon juice mixed with broth, heated until they thicken. Avgolémono 'egg-lemon' is the Greek name; in Arabic, it is called tarbiya or beida bi-lemoune 'egg with lemon'; and in Turkish terbiye... .
Soutzoukakia Smyrneika			large meatballs with cumin, cinnamon and garlic and served in a tomato sauce.
Souvlaki Souvlaki Souvlaki or souvlakia is a popular Greek fast food consisting of small pieces of meat and sometimes vegetables grilled on a skewer. It may be served on the skewer for eating out of hand, in a pita sandwich with garnishes and sauces, or on a dinner plate, often with fried potatoes...			(lit: 'skewer') Anything grilled on a skewer (lamb, chicken, pork, swordfish, shrimp). Most common is lamb, pork or chicken, often marinated in oil, salt, pepper, oregano and lemon.
Spetsofai			a dish with country sausages, peppers, onions and wine. Originates from Mt. Pelion Pelion Pelion or Pelium is a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly in central Greece, forming a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea... .
Stifado			game (rabbit, venison etc.)stew with pearl onions, red wine and cinnamon.

Desserts and sweets

Name	Image	Region	Description
Baklava Baklava Baklava is a rich, sweet pastry made of layers of filo pastry filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup or honey. It is characteristic of the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire and much of central and southwest Asia....			phyllo pastry layers filled with nuts and drenched in syrup.
Bougatsa Bougatsa Bougatsa, , is a Greek breakfast pastry consisting of custard, cheese, or minced meat filling between layers of phyllo.- Origin :...			pastry consisting of custard, cheese, or minced meat filling between layers of phyllo.
Diples Diples Diples or Thiples is a Greek dessert, made of thin sheet-like dough. The dough is rolled into long, thin strips, fried and folded in hot oil and then dipped in syrup....			a Christmas and wedding delicacy, made of thin, sheet-like dough which is cut in large squares and dipped in a swirling fashion in a pot of hot olive oil for a few seconds. As the dough fries, it stiffens into a helical tube; it is then removed immediately and sprinkled with honey and crushed walnuts.
Galaktoboureko Galaktoboureko Galaktoboureko is a Greek dessert of semolina-based custard in phyllo. It may be made in a pan, with phyllo layered on top and underneath, or rolled into individual servings...			custard Custard Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on a cooked mixture of milk or cream and egg yolk. Depending on how much egg or thickener is used, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce , to a thick pastry cream used to fill éclairs. The most common custards are used as...  between layers of phyllo. The name derives from the Greek "ghala", meaning milk, and from the Turkish börek Börek Börek is a family of baked or fried filled pastries made of a thin flaky dough known as yufka . It can be filled with cheese, often feta, sirene or kaşar; minced meat, or vegetables... , meaning filled, thus meaning "filled with milk."
Halvadopites			A nougat of sesame with almonds in a thin crust.
Karidopita			a walnut cake.
Koulourakia Koulourakia Koulourakia are a traditional Greek dessert, typically made at Easter to be eaten after Holy Saturday.They are a butter-based pastry, traditionally hand-shaped, with egg glaze on top. They have a sweet delicate flavor with a hint of vanilla....			butter or olive-oil cookies.
Kourabiedes			Christmas cookies made by kneading flour, butter and crushed roasted almonds, then generously dusted with powdered sugar.
Loukoumades			similar to donuts, loukoumades are essentially fried balls of dough drenched in honey and sprinkled with cinnamon.
Melomakarona			"honey macaroons", Christmas cookies soaked in a syrup of diluted honey (meli in Greek, thus melomakarona), then sprinkled with crushed walnuts.
Moustalevria Moustalevria moustalevria or moustopita is a sort of pudding made of grape must mixed with flour and boiled until thick...			a flour and grape must Must Must is freshly pressed fruit juice that contains the skins, seeds, and stems of the fruit. The solid portion of the must is called pomace; it typically makes up 7%–23% of the total weight of the must. Making must is the first step in winemaking...  pudding.
Moustokouloura			cookies of flour kneaded with fresh grape must Must Must is freshly pressed fruit juice that contains the skins, seeds, and stems of the fruit. The solid portion of the must is called pomace; it typically makes up 7%–23% of the total weight of the must. Making must is the first step in winemaking...  instead of water.
Rizogalo			'rice-milk' is rice pudding Rice pudding Rice pudding is a dish made from rice mixed with water or milk and sometimes other ingredients such as cinnamon and raisins. Different variants are used for either desserts or dinners. When used as a dessert, it is commonly combined with a sweetener such as sugar.-Rice pudding around the world:Rice... .
Loukoumi Turkish Delight Turkish delight or lokum is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar. Premium varieties consist largely of chopped dates, pistachios and hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel; the cheapest are mostly gel, generally flavored with rosewater, mastic, or lemon...			a confection made from starch and sugar, essentially similar to the Turkish delight. A variation from Serres Serres, Greece Sérres is a city in Macedonia, Greece. It is situated in a fertile plain at an elevation of about 70 m, some 24 km northeast of the Strymon river and 69 km north-east of the Macedonian capital, Thessaloniki. The Rhodope Mountains rise to the north and east of the city...  is called Akanes.
Milopita me Pandespani			apple pie with cinnamon and powdered sugar.
Ravani Basbousa (Arabic), revani (Turkish)			sweet cake made of a semolina soaked in syrup.
Soutzoukos
Spoon sweets (γλυκά του κουταλιού)			of various fruits, ripe or unripe, or green unripe nuts. Spoon sweets are essentially made the same way as marmalade, except that the fruit are boiled whole or in large chunks.
Tsoureki Tsoureki Tsoureki , çörek , panarët , choreg , or çörək is a sweet bread in the cuisines of the Balkans, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. It is formed of braided strands of dough...			a traditional Christmas and Easter sweet bread also known as 'Lambropsomo' (Easter bread), flavored with "mahlepi Mahlab Mahlab or mahlepi is an aromatic spice made from the seeds of the St Lucie Cherry . The cherry stones are cracked to extract the seed kernel, which is about 5 mm diameter, soft and chewy on extraction, but ground to a powder before use... ", the intensely aromatic extract of the stone of the St. Lucie Cherry Prunus mahaleb Prunus mahaleb is a species of cherry native to central and southern Europe, western and central Asia, and northwest Africa, from Morocco north to France, southern Belgium, and Germany, and east to northern Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan.It is a deciduous tree or large... .
Vasilopita Vasilopita Vasilopita is a New Year's Day bread or cake in Greece and many other areas in eastern Europe and the Balkans which contains a hidden coin or trinket which gives good luck to the receiver...			Saint Basil's cake or King's cake, traditional for New Year's Day. Vasilopites are baked with a coin inside, and whoever gets the coin in their slice are considered blessed with good luck for the whole year.
Yogurt			with honey Honey Honey is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees is the one most commonly referred to and is the type of honey collected by beekeepers and consumed by humans...  or spoon sweet syrup.

Spreads, dips, others

Name	Image	Region	Description
Tyrokafteri			Sometimes written as Tyrokavteri. A spread or dip, the main ingredients of which are feta cheese, roasted red peppers, and garlic. Can be spicy hot or mild.

Cheese

There is a wide variety of cheeses made in various regions across Greece. The vast majority of them remain unknown outside the Greek borders due to the lack of knowledge and the highly localized distinctive features. Many artisanal hand made cheeses, both common varieties and local specialties, are produced by small family farms throughout Greece and offer distinct flavors atypical of the mass produced varieties found commercially in Greece and abroad. A good list of some of the varieties of cheese produced and consumed in Greece can be found in the List of cheeses article, under the name of the country. Here are some of the more popular throughout Greece:

Name	Image	Region	Description
Anthotyros
Formaela
Feta Feta Feta is a brined curd cheese traditionally made in Greece. Feta is an aged crumbly cheese, commonly produced in blocks, and has a slightly grainy texture. It is used as a table cheese, as well as in salads Feta is a brined curd cheese traditionally made in Greece. Feta is an aged crumbly cheese,...
Graviera Graviera Graviera is a cheese from Greece mainly produced on the Greek island of Crete. It is not to be confused with the Swiss cheese gruyère, which is a related cheese that in some languages has a name similar to Graviera....
Kasseri Kasseri Kasseri is a medium-hard pale yellow cheese made from unpasteurized sheep milk with very little, if any, goat's milk mixed in, in Greece and Turkey...
Kefalotyri
Kefalograviera Kefalograviera Kefalograviera is a hard sheep milk cheese with a salty flavor and rich aroma. It is often used in a Greek dish called Saganaki, cut into triangular pieces, rolled in seasoned flour and lightly fried. It is very similar to Kefalotyri cheese and sometimes is sold as it.Kefalograviera has PDO status...
Myzithra
Manouri
Metsovone

Drinks

Name	Image	Region	Description
Greek frappé coffee			a foam-covered drink derived from spray-dried Spray drying Spray drying is a method of producing a dry powder from a liquid or slurry by rapidly drying with a hot gas. This is the preferred method of drying of many thermally-sensitive materials such as foods and pharmaceuticals. A consistent particle size distribution is a reason for spray drying some...  instant coffee Instant coffee Instant coffee, also called soluble coffee and coffee powder, is a beverage derived from brewed coffee beans. Instant coffee is commercially prepared by either freeze-drying or spray drying, after which it can be rehydrated...  that is consumed cold.
Greek coffee			made by boiling finely ground coffee beans, and is served thick and strong, and often sweetened. It is always unfiltered, with the coffee sediment at the bottom of the cup.
Wine Wine Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...			the most common drink in Greece. Legend claims that wine was invented on the island of Icaria Icaria Icaria, also spelled Ikaria , is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 nautical miles southwest of Samos. It derived its name from Icarus, the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology, who fell into the sea nearby. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Ikaria peripheral... .
Beer Beer Beer is the world's most widely consumed andprobably oldest alcoholic beverage; it is the third most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of sugars, mainly derived from malted cereal grains, most commonly malted barley and malted wheat...			widely drunk; common brands include Vergina, Heineken Heineken Pilsener Heineken is a Dutch beer which has been brewed by Heineken International since 1873. It is available in a 4.6% alcohol variety in countries such as Ireland. It is the flagship product of the Heineken company and is made of purified water, malted barley, hops, and yeast. In 1886 H... , Amstel, Zeos, Mythos, Alfa Hellenic Lager, Fix Fix (beer) FIX is a brand of Greek lager beer. The Fix brewery was founded in 1864 by Johann Karl Fuchs in Athens, Greece. This became the first major brewery in Greece. His father had started brewing the beer in Athens 30 years earlier in 1834. His father had come to Greece from Bavaria with King Otto... , Henninger Henninger Henninger Brewery was a notable brewery in Frankfurt, Germany. The Henninger brewery in Frankfurt traces its roots to 1655 in Eberhard Stein's brew house. It is now owned by the Radeberger Group and still exists as a brand. The beer is now filled at the Binding Brauerei also in Frankfurt... , and Kaiser, all of which are produced locally, some under license.
Mavrodafni Mavrodafni Mavrodafni is both a black wine grape indigenous to the Achaia region in Northern Peloponnese, Greece, and the sweet, fortified wine produced from it.-Winemaking:...			Sweet, liquor-style, red wine with higher alcohol percentage than normal.
Metaxa Metaxa Metaxa is a Greek distilled spirit invented by Spyros Metaxas in 1888. It is a blend of brandy and wine made from sun-dried Savatiano, Sultana and Black Corinth grape varieties. It is then blended with an aged Muscat wine from the Greek islands of Samos and Lemnos. It is exported to over 60...			a brand of sweet brandy Brandy Brandy is a spirit produced by distilling wine. Brandy generally contains 35%–60% alcohol by volume and is typically taken as an after-dinner drink... , 40% alcohol content.
Ouzo Ouzo Ouzo is an anise-flavored aperitif that is widely consumed in Greece and Cyprus, and a symbol of Greek culture.-History:Traditionally, tsipouro is said to have been the pet project of a group of 14th century monks living in a monastery on holy Mount Athos. One version of it is flavored with anise...			(an 80-proof clear alcoholic beverage Alcoholic beverage An alcoholic beverage is a drink containing ethanol, commonly known as alcohol. Alcoholic beverages are divided into three general classes: beers, wines, and spirits. They are legally consumed in most countries, and over 100 countries have laws regulating their production, sale, and consumption...  that is flavored with anise Anise Anise , Pimpinella anisum, also called aniseed, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to the eastern Mediterranean region and Southwest Asia. Its flavor resembles that of liquorice, fennel, and tarragon.- Biology :... ; it turns milky white with water or ice; the best said to be produced on the island of Lesbos Lesbos Island Lesbos is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of with 320 kilometres of coastline, making it the third largest Greek island. It is separated from Turkey by the narrow Mytilini Strait.... ).
Retsina Retsina Retsina is a Greek white resinated wine that has been made for at least 2000 years. Its unique flavor is said to have originated from the practice of sealing wine vessels, particularly amphorae, with Aleppo Pine resin in ancient times. Before the invention of impermeable glass bottles, oxygen...			a white wine that has some pine Pine Pines are trees in the genus Pinus ,in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species.-Etymology:...  resin Resin Resin in the most specific use of the term is a hydrocarbon secretion of many plants, particularly coniferous trees. Resins are valued for their chemical properties and associated uses, such as the production of varnishes, adhesives, and food glazing agents; as an important source of raw materials...  added, originally as a preservative, but nowadays for the flavor; this is an Athens Athens Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...  region specialty. It should not be aged.).
Tentura Tentura Tentura or tintura, from the Italian word for tincture, is a liqueur traditionally produced in the Greek city of Patras since the 15th century. It contains alcohol, water, sugar and fermented essences of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and citrus fruits. Tentura is a quite dark shade of orange-red,...			a cinnamon flavored liquor from Patras Patras Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens... .
Tsipouro Tsipouro Tsipouro is a pomace brandy from Greece and in particular Thessaly , Epirus, Macedonia, Mani Peninsula, and the island of Crete . Tsipouro is a strong distilled spirit containing approximately 45 percent alcohol by volume and is produced from the pomace...  or (esp. in Crete Crete Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits... ) tsikoudia Tsikoudia Tsikoudia is an alcoholic beverage, a fragrant, grape-based pomace brandy of Cretan origin that contains 35%–60% alcohol by volume. Tsikoudia is made by distilling of pomace, i.e., the pieces of grapes that were pressed for the winemaking process... /raki Raki -Alcoholic beverages:*Rakı, an anise-flavored spirit popular in Turkey*Any anise-flavored drink.-Fictional characters:*Raki, a character in the manga/anime series Claymore*Raki, a character in the game Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica...			Mostly home-brewed, a clear drink similar to ouzo, often with higher alcohol content, and usually not flavored with herbs. The city of Volos at the centre of Greece is well-known for its Tsipouradika (literally: tsipouro places). In Thessaly tsipouro is always flavored with anise.