Lyndey and Blair's Taste of Greece: A Mother and Son Travel Through the Peloponnese

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Following on from the hugely successful SBS television series Lyndey & Blair's Taste of Greece' comes the accompanying book, which celebrates the cuisine, culture and beautifully undiscovered land of the Peloponnese.While the cuisine of this area has a starring role, the historic heart of Greece is not overlooked as ancient sites are explored with an adventurous edge, full of humour and insight. Cuisine highlights include sheep's milk yoghurt in Athens; vineyard tour and tasting at Gaia Winery as well as a wonderful goat dish to sample; cooking the freshest squid, barbounia and sea bass on the beach at Vivari; Karonis' ouzo distillery tour, tasting and learning about food and ouzo matching; traditional stuffed eggplant Papoutsakia in Leonidio; visiting bee hives on Kythira; eating hunks of roast pork cleavered from whole pigs at the gypsy market in Messine, cooking local fish recipes atDimitris Taverna in Stoupa; and the world's best chocolate covered figs in Kalamata. The book is filled with beautiful location photography and contains over 80 delectable recipes, which are sure to inspire.

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Lyndey Milan is an Australian media personality. For over 25 years she has been one of Australias most recognised and respected food and cooking show personalities contributing to both TV and print media. She was a presenter on the channel 9 show Fresh and since 2011 has hosted no less than five television series Lyndey Milans Taste of Ireland, Lyndeys Cracking Christmas, Lyndey & Herbies Moveable Feast, Lyndey & Blairs Taste of Greece and the upcoming Lyndey Milans Taste of Australia. Lyndey was Food Director for the Australian Womens Weekly for 10 years, and is currently Vice President and Councillor of the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW, chair of the Sydney Royal Wine Show and was formerly founding Chair of the Fine Food. She is past President of the Australian Association of Food Professionals (formerly Food Media Club Australia), Wine Communicators Australia (formerly Wine Press Club), and sat on the Tourism NSW Food and Wine Advisory Committee for a decade. She is an Ambassador for Australia Day and judges for many industry organisations and works voluntarily for various charities including as co-Founder and Patron of Tasting Success, a mentoring program for female chefs. Last year Lyndey won The Vittoria Legend Award at the Sydney Morning Heralds Good Food Guide 2012 awards and was named as a NSW finalist in the Hudson Private & Corporate Sector Award category of the Telstra Business Womens Awards. Lyndey was awarded the Order of Australia on Australia Day this year. Lyndeys previous TV shows have rated well internationally, and it is expected for Taste of Australia to do the same.