Cookbook Author, Aglaia & Costas’ Aegean Island Kitchen; Kéa, Greece

Aglaia Kremezi is one of the most accomplished food/cookbook writers in Greece and the Mediterranean, and the “Greek grandmother” of Jose Andres’ acclaimed Zaytinya restaurants.  She started her professional life as a photographer, journalist, and editor. She introduced Greek cooking to the American audience with her Julia Child Award–winning book The Foods of Greece (1993), followed by her best-selling The Cooking of the Greek Islands (Houghton Mifflin, 2000). More recently she led a cook’s tour of the region with her Mediterranean Vegetarian Feasts. She blogged at the Atlantic Monthly and writes in Greek, European, and American publications --Food & Wine, Bon Appétit, Cooking Light etc. She takes part and often gives papers at the Oxford Food Symposium. In 2001 she left Athens and moved to Kéa–an island of the Cyclades–with her husband Costas Moraitis, a Yale graduate. Together they garden, cook, write, and teach cooking to travelers. Their Substack, Aglaia & Costas’ Aegean Island Kitchen, chronicles food and life on Kéa, and throughout the Eastern Mediterranean.