{"id":22399,"date":"2016-04-04T22:25:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T05:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22399"},"modified":"2016-04-04T22:25:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T05:25:43","slug":"greek-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/greek-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat Like a Greek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cruzgree.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured is the Santa Cruz &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-cruz-greek.html\">Eat Like a Greek Food Faire<\/a>&#8221; arriving May 13 to 15, 2016<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to discuss what&#8217;s new when it comes to Greek food. Greek cuisine has a\u00a0culinary\u00a0history dating back 4,000 years or more, and today the Mediterranean diet is one of the most cited\u00a0for the health conscious. Though modern Greek meals incorporate\u00a0more meat than earlier days in which grains, olive oil, fish and wine were staples,\u00a0you&#8217;ll savor\u00a0the succulent flavors of\u00a0wood fire cooking\u00a0of\u00a0chicken, lamb and beef. You&#8217;ll\u00a0also find fresh salads, pastries and dishes that\u00a0include olives, olive oil,\u00a0spinach, cheese and other ingredients.<\/p>\n<h2>May\u00a0Greek festivals:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>OAKLAND Greek Festival May 20-22<\/li>\n<li>ANAHEIM &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/anaheim-greek-festival.html\"> Orange County Greek Festival <\/a> May 20-22<\/li>\n<li>NORTHRIDGE Valley Greek Festival Memorial Day Weekend May 28-30<\/li>\n<li>NOVATO &#8211; Marin Greek Festival May 27-29<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured is the Santa Cruz &#8220;Eat Like a Greek Food Faire&#8221; arriving May 13 to 15, 2016 It is hard to discuss what&#8217;s new when it comes to Greek food. Greek cuisine has a\u00a0culinary\u00a0history dating back 4,000 years or more, and today the Mediterranean diet is one of the most cited\u00a0for the health conscious. Though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}