This book is dedicated to our fruitful collaboration during our project "Make Cultural Heritage Part of Our Future" during the school year 2018-2019.

Furthermore,

is dedicated to our wonderful pupils, their ideas, imagination and hard work

that bring to life these wonderful books.

Once upon a time, a long long long time later, in 2237, Aphrodite is at her home at Athienou village, in Cyprus, on planet Earth. She lives there with her family. Today, she has a teleconference with her friends, her classmates from Greece (Athens, Naxos and Meteora), Italy, Spain, Portugal and Polland.

Her e School is a multicultural school, like the most schools of Earth, and they have pupils around the world. Schools apply e learning and face-to-face learning some days a year. Last year, they have face-to-face lessons in Portugal. This year, face-to-face lessons will take place in Athens. Her classmates have different

age. Each pupil attends a class according to his/her knowledge and his/her skills.

During the teleconference, the pupils will discuss the problems they face. All children face the same problems. They are worried about their lost culture. They feel very disappointed because they have lost their customs, their traditional foods, their traditional games, their traditional music and dances, all their cultural heritage. Their mother tongues have been very poor. Archaeological sites have been destroyed since no one is interested in preserving them. Even the environment suffers.

Reasons led to the destruction are mostly socioeconomic. The development of technology was one of the main reasons. People spend a lot of time with technology and they are less interested in culture. They use technology for all their activities, for work, for entertainment, for everything. But the main reason is globalization. People easily change country, travel frequently, forget their own habits, traditions and culture. Wars ruined also cultural heritage.

During the meeting all pupils have made suggestions to find a solution. Aphrodite have suggested to use the time machine to

solve this huge problem. Time machine will help them to learn about their cultural heritage and then they will collaborate to find solutions. The time capsule has not been used for several years and needs repair. They will help each other and will share their knowledge and skills to manage solve this problem. Fortunately, two of the pupils will be 16 years old in few weeks and will be able to drive it. The pupils have to plan the whole journey and also should find an excuse to leave home for such a long period.

APHRODITE TASTES CYPRUS HALLOUMI

by Katerina, Kyriacos S. Konstantina and George Sp.

Aphrodite is at the Old Cheese and Dairy Factory at Athienou village. She asked the recipe for Halloumi, the Cyprus cheese.

THE RECIPE

Ingredients: Cyprus sheep and goat’s and sometimes cow’s milk , cultures (rennet), salt.

-Heat the milk 34oC

-Dilute the rennet with distilled water

Add the diluted rennet into the milk and let it set for 40 minutes at the same temperature.

-The milk thickened.

-Take out curds, squeeze it to remove whey

-Cut curd into blocks

-Garnished them with mint. Mint leaves add to halloumi cheese taste, flavor and freshness. 

-Boil the whey and put the blocks in the hot whey. Add salt.

Halloumi cheese has a firm texture and thus it can be fried, grilled or barbecued without melting, and can be served with grilled vegetables or salads.

It often accompanies cold beer, wine or zivania and it’s a part of Cyprus meze along with “lountza” (smoked pork meat marinated in red wine) and “loukanika” (Cypriot sausages).

During summer time, halloumi is served with watermelon or with melon (this is a common light meal for the Cypriots). It is also very tasteful with tomatoes. 

Grilled halloumi can be served sprinkled with honey.

Grilled pies filled with halloumi.

Halloumi pies

Grated halloumi can be added to various recipes with macaroni.

Halloumi can be added it in omelets, pizzas, burgers and sandwiches. . Just use your imagination and creativity and include halloumi in your recipes!

READY TO MAKE PIZZA!

Flour

ADD A TEASPOON OF SUGAR AND SALT

ONE PACKET OF YEAST

KNEAD THE DOUGH,AND LET RISE FOR THREE HOURS........cook it in the oven

OUR PIZZA IS READY

YUMMY!!!

TRY TO DO IT TOO

Aphrodite, we hope you have enjoyed our trip around the European gastronomic routes where we have enjoyed authentic traditional flavors.

We wish we had more time to show you more of the European unique cuisine!!!

Unfortunately, we must get into the time machine and return back to our school.

Together, during our journey, we learn a lot about our cultural heritage and now we aim to introduce it to everyone of our society and to our countries' visitors so that we keep it alive and protect it.

We will undertake our role seriously and actively to uphold and revive our precious

European cultural heritage.

Dear readers, thank you for choosing our book!