About & Contact

Hi and welcome to My Little Expat Kitchen.

I'm Magdalini. I am from Greece, born and bred in Athens, and for the last three four five six seven eight nine ten years I have been living in The Hague, Netherlands with my also Greek boyfriend, S.

I love food and I have a passion for cooking. I love the creativity it entails and the effect it has on people, such as the huge smile appearing on their faces when they taste something I have cooked for them. That's why I started this blog; I wanted to share recipes and stories about (and beyond) food with the world.

Recipes
The recipes featured on my blog range from traditional Greek recipes (naturally), to modern international ones. I enjoy many different types of cuisines and I'd say that variety is what characterizes my blog and recipes. So take a look around, I'm sure you'll find something you'll like, something that will definitely tempt you to get in the kitchen and create something delicious.

Text
Apart from writing this blog in my native language, Greek, I choose to write in English as well, because my goal is to reach as many people as possible and to be able to share and exchange ideas with them. With you!

Photography
I take all the photographs myself with my small, point-and-shoot digital camera (Casio exilim EX-Z75), though I'm looking into buying a proper DSLR; we'll see. From November 2009 until March 2013 I shot with a point-and-shoot digital camera (Casio exilim EX-Z75). From April 2013 I mostly shoot with my new DSLR camera (finally!), Canon EOS 650D. I'm not a photographer and before I started this blog the only photos I took was the occasional holiday or birthday photo. I realized though that I enjoy photographing my food and I shoot it as soon as it's cooked or prepared and in all its freshness. Well, I have to, as it disappears shortly after. My boyfriend and I eat it, as well as some, dare I say, lucky friends and colleagues (you know who you are).


Contact
I welcome any feedback or questions you might have, so feel free to contact me at this address mylittleexpatkitchen@gmail.com or leave a comment on my blog.
You can also find me on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Flickr.


Thanks for stopping by!



Press, mentions, awards (otherwise known as "show-off time")

• Featured (interview and photographs as featured instagrammer) on National Geographic Traveller Food (UK edition), April 2018

• On CNN Travel: "5 Greek food blogs you should follow"
  

• Published in Cosmopolitan magazine (Greek edition, March 2016) with my recipe for vegan chocolate mousse with coconut milk.

• Winner of Best Cooking Blog, both Critic's Choice and People's Choice at the first ever Greek food blog awards organized by BHMAGourmet

• Featured in "The Guardian" column Cook Kitchen Encounters

• On the expat page of Wall Street Journal: "Hungry? 14 Expat Food Blogs to Read Right Now"

• Featured in Australia's Greek newspaper Neos Kosmos

• On Dutch ELLE eten magazine website: "Trending blog recipes" (in Dutch)

• In the fourth issue of Portes magazine with two recipes

• Interview in Monopoli (in Greek)

• Interview in New Diaspora

•  Finalist on The Kitchn's The Homies Awards: Best cooking blog from abroad 2014

• On SAVEUR: "Worldwide Feast: 55 Great Global Food Blogs"

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• On feedfeed

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