Adventures | The Recipe Hunters in Cyprus

We spent 4 weeks volunteering on a Permaculture farm located in Kyrenia (Girne) , a city on the Northern coast of Cyprus.

In our free time we searched for locals who are passionate about keeping their family's culinary history alive. We first found Karime and learn how to roast lamb in their traditional clay oven, we met two local moms and a grandmother at a flea market and they invited us to learn how to make Cypriot Molokhia and how to make and roll Dolmas, then we learned how to make traditional Cypriot bread from a 93-year-old great-grandmother, and halloumi! We decided to brush up on our Greek and trek to the Southern side of Cyprus where we were invited to stay in the homes of locals and learn how to make traditional Loukoumia, vasilopita for a local elementary school, and visit a goat farm. Check out all of the adventures below!

Halloumi makers

We arrive at 3:30 AM to a local farm in Lefke, Cyprus, where we spend the day learning how to make Halloumi Cheese with two local Cypriots

hatice the local baker

Meet Hatiçe, an 80 yr old grandmother who supplies her seaside town with homemade bread and pastries

clay oven surprise

Join Karime and her beautiful family as they show us how to bake in a traditional Cypriot clay oven

cyprus delights

In 1895 George’s great grandfather, Sophocles Athanasiou, traveled through the Greek Islands where he learned to make the a Greek confectionary sweet called "Loukoumi."