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Hermes Expo 2020: A unique business networking event for the Greek Diaspora
By Catherine Tsounis, contributing editor
Hermes Expo, a leading B2B trade show and exhibition networking series, returns in 2020 for its 29th year. Hermes Expo...
Hermes Expo 2020: Bridging Greek-American Businesses in America
We invite you to participate in the upcoming Hermes Expo Trade 2020. The four-city tour will take place in early April with Hellenic and...
Greek Olive Oil News Site Lacks Funding to Continue
The only wide-ranging English-language website focused on Greek olive oil news has stopped providing up-to-date information about the Greek olive oil world due to...
Out of the Blue in Crete
Out of the Blue, Capsis Elite Resort – a luxury village set within a vast botanical garden on the north coast of Crete –...
Olive Oil in Laconia, Greece: Tradition, Food, and Family
By Lisa Radinovsky
As Nikos Sakellaropoulos says, olives have been cultivated in Laconia, Peloponnese “for thousands of years. Between the Taygetus and Parnonas mountain ranges,...
Winter Fancy Food Show First Stop on The Kontos Foods 2020 Trade Show Tour
Paterson, New Jersey – Jan. 14, 2020 – Kontos Foods, Inc., is kicking off 2020 at the Specialty Food Association’s 2020 Winter Fancy Food Show, which takes place...
On the Road in Greece: The Arcadian Gate
By Ctherine Tousnis,
The 2500-year anniversary since the Battle of Thermopylae and the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC began in Athens on Wednesday, October 16,...
Olive Oil Symposium at the Center of the Ancient World
By Lisa Radinovsky
In Delphi, the ancient Greeks’ center of the world, more than 100 experts, professionals, and enthusiasts from seven countries gathered at the...
Kontos Foods Donates Professional Chef Knives to Graduates of The Culinary School at Eva’s Village
Paterson, New Jersey – Dec. 16, 2019 – Graduates from The Culinary School at Eva’s Village got more than a diploma from the six-month program they completed...
Parthenis Family Keeps Focus on Hellenic Roots as it Continues to Lead the Way in Mediterranean Food Trends
By David Bjorkgren, Senior Editor
Meet the man who helped make the gyro sandwich a national food.
Peter Parthenis Sr. came from the small village of...
Kalymnos Island cuisine begs to be savored
From high atop St. Savvas Monastery the lush agricultural Pothia Valley is like green parkland bisecting this rocky land of Kalymnos Island. Groves of...
Tariff Update: Round Two, by Joseph Profaci of the NAOOA
By Joseph Profaci, NAOOA
Late Friday, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published a notice in the Federal Register regarding its intention to re-open consideration of...
On the Road in Greece: St. Demetrios Cathedral of Thessaloniki
By Catherine Tsounis
“There was a historic St. Demetrios. His bones are here. There is historical proof,” explained attorney Panagiota Petropoulou during our recent Kapogiannis...
Apulia: pleasing hungry visitors for millenniums
For the tourist whose interests lay in religious, architectural, cultural and culinary travel ancient Apulia, the heel of the Italian boot, has been offering...
Lecture on the World of Byzantine Princess Anna Comnena with Armenian Roots
“It is the mark of a bad general when all is peaceful, to incite his neighbors to war intentionally-for peace is the objective of...