Diane Kochilas

Diane Kochilas is the author of The Glorious Foods of
Greece, which won the prestigious Jane Grigson Award for
Excellence in Scholarship by the IACP in 2001. She has
authored two other books on Greek cuisine, The Greek
Vegetarian and The Food and Wine of Greece. She
is chef-owner of Villa Thanassi, a real country restaurant
with a real country garden, which she runs every summer
together with her husband, Vassilis Stenos, on their
ancestral island, Ikaria. On Ikaria, she also operates The
Glorious Greek Kitchen Cooking School and organizes culinary
trips and walking tours in Athens and in other parts of the
country. Diane was born and raised in New York City. She
moved to Greece with her husband in 1992 and now divides her
time between New York, Ikaria, and Athens, where she is the
city's best-known restaurant critic and food journalist.