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My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas
| Website: | https://www.dianekochilas.com/ |
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| Next Airing: | Fri, Mar 14th, 2025 at 5:00 PM on UEN-TV |
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Hosted by chef, cookbook author and restaurateur Diane Kochilas, the 13-part culinary series MY GREEK TABLE WITH DIANE KOCHILAS celebrates Greek history and culture through food. In the series, Diane travels throughout Greece and its surrounding islands where she showcases many of the foods that Greece is known for (olive oil, feta, honey, yogurt and more), while giving a snapshot of the country's traditions. Then Diane heads back to her kitchen to whip up simple home-cooked meals using the ingredients she highlights in each episode, offering tips on how to cook and pair them in a traditional Greek meal.
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The Father of Modern Greek Cooking
Diane and Chef Lefteris Lazarou, often called the father of modern Greek cuisine, explore the fish market and Diane gets a few lessons on how to choose the best seafood. At his restaurant in Piraeus, Chef prepares a Pan-Seared Grouper and Whole Squid with Spanakopita Puree. Diane, inspired by Chef, creates seafood-stuffed cabbage rolls in her home.
Next Airing: Fri, Mar 14th, 2025 at 5:00 PM on KUED-HD Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/20/2022 to 10/19/2026 -
Pie Heaven
Densely forested mountains, stone-cobbled villages, sheep and emerald greenery are the stuff of Epirus's lush, mountainous landscape. Diane visits the mountain enclave of a traditional shepherding family and makes a feta cheese pie with layers of crisp homemade pastry that is baked the way it's been done for centuries: over embers. The result is a taste of heaven on earth! Back in her kitchen, Diane makes two of her own savory pies: a Pleated, Buttery Feta Cheese Pie and a delicious Chicken-Phyllo Pie, both inspired by this region's deepest traditions. Guests: Artemis Tsakalou; Yannis Dekolis.
Next Airing: Sat, Mar 15th, 2025 at 11:30 AM on KUED-HD Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/20/2022 to 10/19/2026 -
Flavors of the Athenian Art Scene
Diane's artist daughter, Kyveli, invites a few gallerists and young artists for dinner in her studio in Exarcheia, a fascinating Athens neighborhood, and Diane cooks up the perfect meal to inspire their insightful conversation. On the menu: Braised Ouzo-Orange Octopus, Zucchini-Herb Phyllo Pie, and a Giant Bean Greek Salad.
Next Airing: Fri, Mar 21st, 2025 at 5:00 PM on KUED-HD Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/20/2022 to 10/19/2026 -
Everyday Superfoods
Continuity, innovation and superfoods! Greece, with its rich flora and unique array of natural edible bounty, is a cornucopia of age-old natural superfoods. In this episode, Diane invites a well-known dietician into her kitchen and together they prepare a deliciously healthy meal that is brimming with Greek superfoods. On the menu: a Spiced Carrot Soup Three Ways, a Black-Eyed Pea Salad with Dried Figs, Pomegranate, EVOO and Herbs; and an ancient dessert of wheat kernels, Greek honey, nuts, and dried fruits called Varvara. Guest: Manos Dimitroulis.
Next Airing: Sat, Mar 22nd, 2025 at 11:30 AM on KUED-HD Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/20/2022 to 10/19/2026 -
Diane Discovers Her New Athens 'hood
In this episode, Diane discovers the history of her historic neighborhood in the heart of central Athens with the city's most renowned urban chronicler, and cooks up a delicious Spiced Roasted Chicken with Toasted Orzo Pilaf, Kale Caesar with Greek yogurt and a Crispy Phyllo Ice Cream Sundae with Honey, Nuts and Halva.
Next Airing: Fri, Mar 28th, 2025 at 5:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/20/2022 to 10/19/2026 -
My Greek Dinner Party
Diane prepares a dinner party meal for a handful of her closest friends. Diane provides helpful tips to alleviate the stress that comes with planning a dinner party and provides easy recipes that are healthy and delicious. On the menu: Char-Broiled Cabbage "Steaks" with Pomegranate Seeds and Lemon Zest, Whole Baked Fish with Leeks, and Greek Yogurt Panna Cotta.
Next Airing: Sat, Mar 29th, 2025 at 11:30 AM on KUED-HD Length: 00:26:41 Usage rights: 10/20/2022 to 10/19/2026 -
The Accidental Vegan
So much Greek food is naturally vegan. That's a truism about life around the Greek table. Diane explores the fast-growing vegan trends in Athens, honing in on the transformation of Greek classics like moussaka rendered vegan! She invites the country's best-known vegan chef into her kitchen. The results are delightful: Vegan Moussaka, Vegan Galaktoboureko, even a Vegan Yiouvarlakia, a Rice-Meatball Soup. Hint: mushrooms and avocados are involved. Guest: Nikos Gaitanos.
Next Airing: Fri, Apr 4th, 2025 at 5:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/20/2022 to 10/19/2026 -
Street Food In Athens
Diane and chef Carolina Doriti meet to explore the street food scene all over Athens, tasting their way through vegan treats, savory hand-held pies, overflowing Greek sandwiches and hand made gelato. Inspired, Diane creates some homemade street food: a Gyro-Stuffed Baked Bread Loaf, a Warm Green Bean Salad with Chopped Onion and Hazelnuts, and a Healthy Smoothie Bowl with Greek Yogurt. Guest: Carolina Doriti.
Next Airing: Fri, Apr 11th, 2025 at 5:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/20/2022 to 10/19/2026 -
Thessaloniki: Greece's De Facto Food City
No other city evokes the rich and complex history of Greek cuisine better than Thessaloniki, recently named a UNESCO Food City and Greece's de facto culinary capital. Diane learns the secrets of bougatsa, an airy, creamy phyllo pastry, with a master baker, and boards a mussel boat just off the coast to harvest one of the city's favorite seafood delicacies. From sweet shops to hot peppers to unsurpassed meze plates, Diane savors and shares the flavors of Thessaloniki. In her kitchen she cooks up Mussel Pilaf and Feta-Stuffed Roasted Peppers. Guest: Filippos Bantis.
Next Airing: Fri, Apr 18th, 2025 at 5:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/20/2022 to 10/19/2026 -
Old World Charms of the Athenian Table
Diane explores the urbane, bourgeois flavors of Athens of another era in this tasty trip down memory lane, when she visits the home and kitchen of 90-year-old Irini Pournara and her daughter Margarita, a journalist for the city's most respected daily paper. Eirini makes an Athenian classic and the only dish to which this city has lent its name: Athinaiki Mayioneza (poached fish and vegetables with homemade mayonnaise), and Diane cooks up a sophisticated artichoke dish called A la Polita and an unusual Meatloaf Wrapped in Grape Leaves. Guests: Irini Pournara; Margarita Pournara.
Next Airing: Fri, Apr 25th, 2025 at 5:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/20/2022 to 10/19/2026 -
Northern Delights - Ioannina
Nestled in the dense Pindus mountains along a crystalline lake in the remote northwestern corner of Greece, Ioannina is a crossroads of the meat-and-cheese centric cooking of the mountains as well as the culinary gifts of the lake. It's also home to the most renowned baklava in Greece. Diane focuses on this quaint old city's culinary and cultural lore, and the outcome is a delicious confluence of earth and water: from a unique local version of baklava to hearty Clay-Baked Lamb and a Feta-Cheese Skillet Pie to a truly rare Clay-Tile-Baked Eel, the flavors of Ioannina will pique your curiosity and appetite for this undiscovered corner of the country. Guest: Artemis Kolionasiou.
Next Airing: Fri, May 2nd, 2025 at 5:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 10/20/2022 to 10/19/2026 -
The Sephardic Cooking of Thessaloniki
In this poignant episode of loss, survival and revival, Diane visits the daughter of Holocaust survivors for a tour of Thessaloniki's Jewish past. Hella cooks up a few of her family's Sephardic recipes, including Huevos Haminados (slowly boiled spiced eggs) and Merenza Assada (grilled eggplant with meatballs in tomato sauce). Diane visits a local restaurant for a demo and taste of another old Jewish dish, Keftikas de Nogada (meatballs with walnut sauce) that is part of this fascinating city's cultural and culinary heritage. In the kitchen she makes Chicken with Prunes. Guests: Hella Matalon; Konstantinos Markou.
Next Airing: Fri, May 9th, 2025 at 5:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/20/2022 to 10/19/2026 -
The Foods That Unite Us
With Athens as a backdrop, Diane explores the foods that unite us, meaning the foods so many of us have in common regardless of where we are from. Can soba noodles be grecophied? Yes, with a little tahini, shrimp and olive oil! Can Greek filling of a classic spanakopita be repurposed as a filling for an American baked potato? Indeed! Can the idea of a chicken gyro morph into a Greek-style fajita? We're guessing you know the answer! In this playful, informative episode, Diane ventures beyond tradition into the global world, embracing new ingredients, inspired by Athens' vibrant dining scene, and christening a whole bevy of new recipes Greek!
Next Airing: Fri, May 16th, 2025 at 5:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 10/20/2022 to 10/19/2026