Greece

For thousands of years, Greek honey has been collected for its delicious, sweet taste and healing, nutritious properties.

The Ancient Greeks likely hold claim to being the first people to use honey as an ingredient in beauty products. Today, you will find honey in an array of beauty products from face masks and shampoo to body cream...

The tenth annual festival celebrating Greek-made honey and other apiary products opens its doors this Friday, December 7, at 19:00 local time (17:00 GMT) at the Exhibition Hall of the Stadium of Peace and Friendship in Faliro, Athens. Agriculture and Food...

"Greece, despite domestic perceptions, is the 34th exporter of honey worldwide, with a market share of 0.34 pct of total value of exports in 2014, and a total export value of 7.47 million US dollars, less than Portugal (9.49...

Greek researchers have perfected a technique which converts honey and other superfoods into powder without destroying their nutritional value. As explained by Kostas Petrotos, Associate Professor of Agricultural Engineering at the Technical University of Thessaly, this is a high-tech method...

Honey with edible gold leaf, which foreigners seem to love, and the sales of which have boomed, is a Greek patent, the idea of a young couple from Evia, Greece, who, while they were about to leave the country...

An equally significant part of a wedding’s preparation is the honeymoon. A couple spends enough time thinking of the right place to travel to, and as expected, they think of an exotic island, a romantic city somewhere dreamy far...

As the vibrant parades of the Greek Carnival, or "Apokries," flood the streets of the nation, this festive season brings with it a storm of culinary traditions that are as colorful and rich as the celebrations themselves. Apokries marks the...

Linguists and experts in the ancient world have long been puzzled by the absence of a distinct word for the color in Ancient Greek.

Taste is as subjective as beauty and this is why some foods are very common in a culture while outsiders think of them as strange or even weird. Greece does have some of these dishes. We compiled a list of the ones...

Beauty was extremely important in ancient Greece and not just for women but for men, as well. As admirers of beauty, ancient Greeks placed great emphasis on healthy skin, and, naturally, they developed many useful, natural beauty tips. The countless...

Greece, with its 6,000 islands and islets scattered in the Aegean and Ionian Seas, is full of honeymoon destinations. There are destinations that are ideal for honeymoon retreats where you can choose to explore the history, sunbathe on beautiful beaches,...

Greek grandmothers, or "yiayias," in their accumulated wisdom and vast experience, have been known to use homemade remedies for millennia.

Christopsomo, or “Christ’s bread,” has been an indispensable part of the Christmas Day table in every Greek household throughout the centuries. If you are ever fortunate enough to spend a Christmas in Greece, you will be certain to become enchanted...

During the Christmas season, Greece is filled with the delicious aroma of sugary-sweet traditional Greek desserts, floating out from houses and bakeries as people prepare for the holiday season. Featuring traditional Greek flavors like nuts, citrus, spices like cinnamon and...