People walk past a closed-down branch of the global travel group Thomas Cook, three days after the company filed for bankruptcy, in Peterborough, central England on September 26, 2019. - "Most of us ...

Clockwise from top left: author Irene Matys, elies tsakistes (cracked green olives with coriander, garlic and lemon), keftedes (Cypriot meatballs) and patates antinaxtes (potatoes with olives, ...

Everything that was made in the restaurant by both my yiayias [grandmothers]. Keftethes — little deep-fried meatballs — were my favourite, and I can still polish off a plateful. My maternal yiayia ...

Cypriots take food seriously, not in a formal sense, but as a cornerstone of daily life and social connection. Eating is rarely rushed and seldom treated as a purely functional act. Meals are ...

The East Mediterranean has also seen another invasive Red Sea fish in the last decade: the silver-cheeked toadfish. Known as ...