1. Greek Salad: Feta, tomato, cucumber, onion, and olive oil.
The ancient Greek gods did a lot of eating of their children.
Zeus ate Athena’s pregnant mother, only to have his daughter spring out of his head once Hephaestus split it open with an axe.
Cronus ate his first five children until his wife tricked him by switching a tasty rock for baby Zeus.
Inspired by the ravenous appetites of the Greek gods, on this teacher tour of Greece, we have been eating like monsters.
Only, instead of infants, we have been eating amazing Greek food! The freshness and deliciousness of the cuisine here thrills us.
Here is a tour of just a few Greek culinary delights which we adore.
Flaky, flavorful Spinach Pie. Scrumptious!
1. Right above, you will see Greek Salad.
At home in America, tomatoes and cucumbers are kind of lame.
They’re soggy, water-flavored, and free at Subway to add to sandwiches because no one really cares about them.
In Greece, however, these foods make a salad bursting with joy!
2. To your right, gaze at Spinach Pie.
Our tour guide, Mara, explained that every town has a different recipe for this dish, but they are all delicious!
The Spinach Pie we indulged in today had a light-as-wind crust which melted in our mouths with a delicate, “Crunch!” that led into the zing of moist spinach and feta.
Tzatziki Sauce: Yogurt, cucumber, garlic, salt, and olive oil.
Yum!
3. To the left, let your eyes be soothed by the Tzatziki Sauce.
Tzatziki has been served at every meal we have eaten here, and adds a cooling, refreshing smoothness to food.
My coworker who is also on this trip insists that it’s both easy and delicious to make Tzatziki at home, and we may need to learn how to, we’ve so gotten in the habit of eating it.
Whenever we try to order anything at a restaurant, the waiter unfailingly reprimands:
“You want Tzatziki, too, RIGHT??”
It’s almost a threat. But clearly, there’s a reason it’s so ubiquitous: Tzatziki is good!
Gigantes: Massive and "soft as a sheep brain" beans!
4. To the right, check out Gigantes: Giant White Beans!
“You MUST try them,” gushed our Greek co-tour-er, Gilda. “They are soft as a sheep’s brain!”
“WHAT?!” I gasped, aghast. “Sheep brain?!?!”
“Yes,” smiled Gilda serenely. “In Greece we enjoy eating sheep brain, and it is very soft and delicious.”
Gigantes are giant beans, not brains, but whatever you desire to compare them to, they are fluffy and great!
This post could go on and on about the other foods we’ve loved having in our mouths and tummies this week in Greece.
We ate lunch today under the palm trees, sun, and ACROPOLIS!
But for now, let’s turn our eyes from our plates of luscious food to the location of the restaurant in which we ate lunch today.
We were in Athens, Greece, under a sun umbrella, under a palm tree, under the sapphire blue sky and golden sun, gazing up at…
…the Parthenon high atop the ancient Greek Acropolis!!!!!
Odds are, we enjoyed our meal far more than Zeus liked his baby Athena sandwich. 
Wow the food certainly looks good, though i have only tried greek pizza
Thanks for sharing about Greece-I’m headed there in a few days and if it’s as great as you make it sound/look, I can’t wait!
Huzzah! Have a great time, and keep us posted!
The Greek salad looks delicious and very fresh. There should be more restaurants selling Greek food in America. The food looks so good that I wish I can jump into the picture and eat the food.
Wow, that food looks very different fro the food we eat here. Have you ever ate anything like this. It looks like they eat a lot of fruit and a lot of other healthy stuff.
As I mentioned in another comment here on this blog, I’ve never been to Greece. Reading your post however showed me that I ate some Greek dishes;) I’m sure though the local taste is different so I’m looking forward to tasting them at their home, Greece.
Wow the food in Greece looks really good but i don’t think I would eat it.
The first picture looks soo good! Very simple but so looks so tasty!
When I look at the food, it looks delicious and I would like to eat it. The spinach pie looks interesting because I never see one before. Some are fancy looking like the Tzatziki Sauce. I would like to be you going all over the world to different places. I wanted to try new food.
The Tzatziki Sauce look very good and, someday I wish I can go to Greek.
Great Food!
This food looks delicious. It probably taste better than how it looks. I wonder how their ice cream taste like.
I always thought they ate stuff like pasta but now I know they don’t, but I still wonder what real sheep brains taste like.
The big beans look very good, and it resembles food you would see in a gourmet cooking magazine.
Wow! All of these foods look so good, they made me hungry. They have such weird combinations of ingredients.
*Cough,cough* My play was on that myth! I think I see Mrs.O’Flaherty in one of your pictures!
I love that title! That is crazy that they ate their children! In our play we did, we acted out the part of how Cronus got tricked by his wife and ate the rock instead of the baby!
Ms.Marshall the food in Greece looks really good! Only I don’t know how i feel about Tzatiziki. Though I do think the Greek salad and the spinach pie look really good. I would really like to try it someday.
Before reading this article, I was jealous you even traveled to Greece. Now I am even more jealous that you ate all this delicious food! All these foods look so scrumptious and make my mouth water just looking at them. I am glad you got to experience that amazing food.
This food looks great. But a lot of the food has olive oil in it. It looks kind of weird.
Wow, Ms. Marshall!! I’m so jealous of you! I wish I was there too, so I can indulge into the wonderful foods! You’re making me really hungry while I was reading this…
I’m going to try to learn the recipes at home!
I don’t think that I would like any of that food. Did you try the food Mrs. Marshall? Was it good?
Answer those questions by re-reading the article, Robert.
Zeus ate Athena’s pregnant mother? I never new that, plus Hephaestus splits the daughter open? This is crazy even for ancient Greek and Roman tales!
Sheep brain! Gross, that sounds nasty! It is like people in America eating goat brain.
My mom loves Greek salad, but I hate spinach!
Today I had my introduction to real Greek food. And believe it or not, my favorite part was the bread bathed in olive oil. Soooo good!! I’m a bread monster!!
The olive oil is out of this world!!!! We always think about Italian olive oil, but it’s time we shifted our focus East!
I wonder if the vegetables in the dishes are local.
I like how the umbrellas have American brands on them. It makes them look funny.
That is my favorite part of traveling out of the state or country.You get to try all of the foods that they eat everyday. When I went to Canada every night we tried something that we would not usually eat in America. You made a connection by talking about the gods.
The food looks so good! I’m so jealous, especially when you had the dessert. It looks so yummy!
I wish I could eat all the food shown above. I really want the Greek Salad because I love salads.
Wow, I wish we had food that looks that good in America. Reading this made me hungry, and it made want to go to Greece.
They use this the most according to what you ate. They could not live without having around. :{]
1. Feta cheese
2. Olive Oil
3. Tzatziki Sauce
I have never seen food like that before.
Wow! Their food consist of a lot of olive oil. The spinach pie looks so unappetizing, especially when all you see is the green inside of it. I didn’t even know beans grew that big. I thought at first those were some kind of giant tomatoes or something. Would you consider the food healthier then Bostons?
Yes, because it’s fresher!
I think that the spinach pie looks so good. It is weird that the people puts spinach inside the pies. But I would try it because it trying new stuff never hurts.
It is funny how you compared yourself to the monstrous Greek gods and titans. Some of the food looks really good, like the Greek Salad and the Spinach Pie.
The spinach pie looks so delious!
It reminds me of a crispy treat just like that. I think it’s called a scallion cake or something like that. I wish I could try some Greek food.
It’s very easy to try Greek food in Boston. There are lots of Greek restaurants around– just Google it. See if your family will take you this month!
The food that you have experienced on your trip to Greece looks quite delicious I have to admit. The spinach pie doesn’t look very appealing to me though. I do think the best part of traveling though, is trying all the different kinds of food that you see in the pictures!
I thought all of the food above look awesome!! I wish I had some of that and wish if you brought some of it back to school.
The spinach cake looks gross to me because I hate spinach and thinking about a cake with spinach makes me want to vomit.
Your loss. More spinach pie for me!!!
Wow Ms. Marshall. You guys sure tried a lot of different foods. I agree with you with your opinion of cucumbers in America.
I probably wouldn’t like any of the foods above because I’m a picky eater but unlike me, my parents eat practically everything and would love the Tzatziki sauce.
Scintillating title… I kind of want some Greek food now… thanks a lot lol:p
When my friend went to Greece , she brought back some Spinach pie and it was amazing! But I’ve never tasted Gigantes before, it looks really good.
I think that the best part about traveling to another country or state is experiencing all of the peculiar yet delicious foods there are. The Gigantes look really good!