Climate and Food of Greece
Essay title: Climate and Food of Greece
Climate
GREEK CLIMATE
Greece has a climate all its own. Greece has fairly warm temperatures all year round and
is very nice to live in…well according to the climate. Greece is located in Europe, next to
Italy, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is theoretically possible for it to snow in Greece, but it
is very, very rare to see. Though it may seem like a nice place to live with it being warm
and on the ocean and all But Greece is surprisingly very dry due to its long summers of 4
months.
Here is what the average daily temperature is like in Athens (Fahrenheit):
January: 55
February: 57
March: 60
April: 68
May: 77
June: 86
July: 92
August: 92
September: 84
October: 75
November: 66
December: 58
Crops and Food Grown in Greece
There are many crops grown in Greece due to the fact that all parts of Greece are no more
then 90 miles from the sea. The excessive summers and the combination of the nearby
sea makes Greece and extremely habitable place for crops and plants.
Many types of olives are grown in Greece, some include:
Amfissa: Black and round with a nutty-sweet taste, from the mainland
Green: Large and crunchy with a mild flavor, found on various islands
Cracked Green: Made by cracking unripe green olives, placing them in water for several weeks to remove their bitterness, then storing them in brine
Black: Small, wrinkled, dry-cured olives with very strong flavor from the island of Thassos.
About 30 percent of the land area is workable, the remainder of the land consists of
shrub or forest. Only in the plains of Thessaly, Macedonia, and Thrace is cultivation
possible on a large scale. Here corn (maize), wheat, barley, sugar beets and tobacco
are grown. Greece is a major provider of tobacco.
How Greek Foods fit into Canada’s Food Guide
Greek Foods fit into Canada’s food guide very nicely. Greece has everything except that it’s not in large quantities due to their country’s size. They have fruit, vegetables. Cheese, meat (fish mostly), herbs and spices, and many desserts including baklava. So Greek foods have everything Canada does except in a wider variety and styles.
Mountains of Greece
Greece has an extremely good variety of mountains on which it snows regularly, including:
Altitude
Geographical department
Antichassia
1.424
Thessalia
Athos
2.033
Macedonia
Avgo (Northern Pindos)
2.177
Macedonia
Avgo (Southern Pindos)
2.148
Thessalia
Chelidona
1.975
Central Greece (Sterea)
Delidimi (2)
2.163
Thessalia
Dikti
2.148
Creta
Dirfi
1.743
Evoia
Elikon
1.748
Central Greece (Sterea)
Erymanthos
2.227
Peloponnese
Falakro
2.232
Macedonia
Gerania
1.351
Attiki
Ghiona
2.510
Central Greece (Sterea)
Grammos
2.520
Epirus
Hadji
2.038
Thessalia
Helmos