Aglaia Kremezi

Journalist and Author of Several US Published Books on Greek and Mediterranean Cooking, among them The Foods of the Greek Islands; Kea, Cyclades, Greece

Aglaia Kremezi, a journalist and author, introduced Greek cooking to the American audience with her Julia Child Award–winning book ‘The Foods of Greece’ (1993) and more recently led a cook’s tour of the region with her ‘Mediterranean Vegetarian Feasts’.

Kremezi, was born, lived and worked in Athens as a photographer, journalist and editor. In the late 1990ies she concentrated on food writing, and the study of the cuisines of the Mediterranean. In 2001 she moved to Kea–an island of the Cyclades– with her husband Costas Moraitis a Yale graduate. Together they garden, cook, write, and teach cooking to travelers.

Her best-selling The Cooking of the Greek Islands (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) after several editions came out in paperback. She blogged at the Atlantic Monthly, and writes in Greek, European and American publications Food and Wine, Bon Appétit, Cooking Light, epicurious.com, etc. She gives papers at the Oxford Symposium on Food and for several years was a guest lecturer at the Culinary Institute of America, in Greystone.

Before concentrating on food, she has been the editor in chief and creator of news, women, and life-style Greek magazines. She was the original consultant for Molyvos, the first upscale Greek restaurant in New York city, to which Ruth Reichl gave three stars in the NY Times. She is now a consultant –the ‘Greek grandmother’– at Zaytinya, Jose Andres’ acclaimed Greek and Middle Eastern restaurants, in Washington DC, NY and Miami.

Her blog, Aglaia’s Table, and her newsletter Aglaia & Costas’ Aegean Island Kitchen chronicles food and life on the Greek island of Kea, and throughout the Mediterranean.