Talk:Cuisine of Cyprus

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Contents 1 Attempts to improve article 2 Expensive fish 3 It would be very useful if, 4 i can see why

[edit] Attempts to improve article

I have started to re-paragraph the article in accordance with Wikiproject food here: [1] Any help appreciated! StephP 13:07, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

I will happily help you in this, i have tried to clear up the souvla article, which was just plain misleading apart from your excellent original, short but accurate. Be aware though that i am passionate about cypriot food, and am not prepared for example to pretend that cyptiots enjoy what greeks enjoy on the table- i.e. i do not see how articles about horiatiki salata can possibly link back to cypriot cuisine- we don't eat feta cheese in that way, as you well know.

I intend to write about bourekia, pittes, shamishi, pourgouri, psito, yiahni, tashinopittes and the like. I would not like to see an article about cypriot cuisine pretend that we eat what the lebanese, syrians, mainland greeks or mainland turks eat. That would be doing our grandmothers, be they greek or turkish cypriots a big disservice! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hotspury (talk • contribs) 12:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Expensive fish

I can see why someone has removed my paragraph on how expensive and unreliable fish is in restaurants in cyprus, particularly those aimed at tourists, but as a cypriot myself i do think its important to acknowledge that by giving foreign visitors the impression that we can't cook fresh fish without any explanation is just bare faced deceit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hotspury (talk • contribs) 12:02, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] It would be very useful if,

someone of turkish cypriot origin could provide some names for the dishes described, being a greek cypriot I am lamentably ignorant for example, Kleftiko i know is firin kebab, but that is about all i know. many thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hotspury (talk • contribs) 17:20, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] i can see why

this page links to greek cuisine, but why greek macedonian cuisine, its absurd, so i have removed the link —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hotspury (talk • contribs) 23:08, 1 May 2008 (UTC)