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  Dairy products such as: beaten feta cheese, mezithra, anthotiro cheese for spaghetti, ksialina (a type of yoghurt), oil cheese (cheese pieces in oil) etc.
  Fish and seafood: salted fish (bream, sardine), sun-dried fish “liokafta” (bream), octopus, sargos, orfos, fagri, sinagrides, white-bait, skari, red-mullet-“barbounia”.
  Other dishes: lobster pasta, garlic macaroni, chick-pea, lentil and courgette balls “keftedes”, black olives, stuffed courgette flowers “dolmades”.
  Sweets: Honey biscuits “melomakarona”, finikia, loukoumades, sesame pasteli, halva with honey, fried pancakes- “xerotigana”, crepes, syruped fruits (quince, orange, bitter orange, bergamot).
  Herbs-decoctions: sage, oregano, thyme, chamomile.
(Text: Manolis Makris)
This text is cited February 2004 from the Dodekanissos Union of Municipalities & Communities pamphlet.