{"id":1111,"date":"2018-06-17T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vassilenas.gr\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2018-06-26T19:08:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T16:08:22","slug":"refugee-food-festival-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vassilenas.gr\/en\/refugee-food-festival-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"20-21 June: “Vassilenas” is hosting the Refugee Food Festival and the Iraqi food tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the third year in a row, Food Sweet Food<\/strong> in collaboration with UNHCR<\/strong> and Athens Insider <\/strong>co-organize the Refugee Food Festival.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We participate by opening our kitchen for two days<\/strong> to Iraqi chef Adel Al Ahmad<\/strong> who is promising to guide us through the culinary tradition of his country. Iraqi cuisine has a history going back thousands of years, to ancient Mesopotamia where the oldest scriptures pertaining to a cookbook have been found. Having received influences from Syria, Iran and Turkey, modern Iraqi cuisine is filled with oriental aromas and spices.
\nHere is what Adel has been preparing for you:<\/p>\n

MENU 20-21 June 2018<\/strong><\/h3>\n

IRAQI<\/strong> SOUP
\n<\/strong>Chicken, saffron, ginger, corn and vegetable sprouts <\/strong><\/p>\n

SALAD
\n<\/strong>Lettuce, plum tomato, green apple, cucumber and black sesame <\/strong><\/p>\n

GRILLED<\/strong> SEA<\/strong> BREAM
\n<\/strong>with cauliflower, zucchini, lime, cumin and chili pepper <\/strong><\/p>\n

LAMB<\/strong> B<\/strong>\u0399<\/strong>R<\/strong>\u03a5<\/strong>IANI
\n<\/strong>Lamb shank, saffron-and-cardamom perfumed rice, raisins and pine seeds <\/strong><\/p>\n

BAKLAVA<\/strong> DESSERT
\n<\/strong>Caramelized phyllo dough with spices, green-kernel Greek pistachio and cardamom ice cream<\/p>\n

                                                                                                                                         <\/strong>Price<\/strong> \u20ac35\/<\/strong>person<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Our regular menu will also be available on both days.
\n* Photo credit: Vangelis Tatsis for <\/span>SolidarityNow.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We open our kitchen to Iraqi chef Adel Al Ahmad who is proposing a 5-course menu imbued with oriental perfumes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vassilenas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vassilenas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vassilenas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vassilenas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vassilenas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vassilenas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vassilenas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vassilenas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vassilenas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vassilenas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}