Melbourne celebrates Greek cuisine with OMG Week

Melbourne has invited the cream of Greek gastronomy to the Australian city to celebrate the second installment of Oh My Greek Week, an event dedicated to Greek cuisine, from November 21-26. OMG Week is the brainchild of famed Greek-Cypriot-Australian chef George Calombaris, who has been instrumental in the promotion of contemporary Greek cuisine thanks to years of television shows, a plethora of books and 17 restaurants in Melbourne.

"In Australia and the US, where Greeks emigrated en masse in the 1960s, Greek cuisine was for years synonymous with the dishes that were common in Greece at that time," explains chef Christoforos Peskias, who will be traveling from Athens to Melbourne for the event again this year, at the invitation of Calombaris. Calombaris has invited more chefs to prepare dishes that are representative of contemporary Greek food trends, including Stelios...