Beef Stew with Olives is Greek comfort food, brought to you step by step by Greek cooking guru Diane Kochilas. Well-known Greek food expert and award-winning author DIANE KOCHILAS and photographer-videographer VASSILIS STENOS bring you a delicious, easy Greek dish based on Mediterranean classics like Greek olives. This stew is perfect for a Sunday meal with family. It hails from the mainland. Serve it with Greek or other noodles or plain rice.

Come to visit Diane and Vassili at their GLORIOUS GREEK KITCHEN COOKING SCHOOL. They also own and DV FOOD ARTS CONSULTING, a food marketing company that produces specialty books and other food-and-wine-related literature for a wide variety of clients and independently for the tourist and other markets. Diane consults on Greek cuisine for restaurants, retail outlets and producers of fine Greek foods. Vassilis Stenos offers an extensive archive of food and travel photographs of Greece.

Diane Kochilas is a well-known Greek food “guru”, consultant, chef. She has written 19 books on Greek and Mediterranean cuisine. She is the consulting chef at Pylos, one of New York’s top-rated Greek restaurants. Diane divides her time between Athens, Ikaria, and New York. In Athens, she is the weekly food columnist and restaurant critic for Ta Nea, the country’s largest newspaper. Diane writes frequently for the US food press and appears regularly on American television. Her books include: The Food and Wine of Greece, The Greek Vegetarian, The Glorious Foods of Greece, Meze, Against the Grain (good carbs), Mediterranean Grilling, Mastiha Cuisine, The Northern Greek Wine Roads Cookbook, and Aegean Cuisine.

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