Cooking from the heart: Anne and Maree honouring yiayia Mary

It’s each astir emotion and bequest for My Kitchen Rules mother-daughter duo Anne Ioannou and Maree Durkin.

The ‘Gourmet Greeks’, arsenic they’re known by, person been capable to showcase their practice and honour their precocious mum/yiayia Mary’s legacy.

They accidental she would person been proud.

“I think increasing up successful such a tightknit household evidently the cooking influences lone travel from family, similar me, my mum and yiayia,” Maree tells Neos Kosmos.

“Yiayia was a beauteous woman. She took the clip to teach us and fto us watch her bash her dolmades, bash her gemista.

“She was the biggest power of our lives actually.”

Anne and Maree. The ‘Gourmet Greeks’. Photo: Supplied/Seven Network

Anne says her parent was a existent person of cooking and it was ever astir family, emotion and getting together. And nutrient of course.

“What Greek doesn’t similar to eat?” she laughs.

Anne and Maree had the accidental to navigator from the bosom for an episode, cooking Greek recipes that would marque Mary proud, but Maree says she besides wanted to showcase her mum Anne and what she tin do.

Being a close-knit family, the emotion and reception was aplenty, but it besides came from the wider community.

‘Go the Greeks!’ they heard when they went to their section deli the different day.

(Left to right). Mary Tsakissiris, Anne Ioannou (Mary’s daughter) and Maree Durkin (Mary’s granddaughter). Photo: Supplied

Anne’s parents were Greeks from Alexandria, Egypt, and her in-laws from Cyprus.

Anne, a retired quality therapist, says her kids and grandkids embraced their heritage.

“I think I’m very passionate arsenic acold arsenic passing connected tradition due to the fact that that’s however my parents raised maine and I bash my champion to amusement the influences of our Greek culture,” she says.

Mother of three Maree adds that her kids emotion it and tell her ‘mum, I’m Greek’.

Now the duo will beryllium publishing their and Mary’s recipes, which will beryllium a tribute to not conscionable her but Greek cuisine.

In the time and property of speedy κοινωνικά media nutrient videos, the program is for a elemental and amusive cookbook that will nexus to visual guides.

And they person already started with their Instagram Anne and Maree Gourmet Greeks.

Family photograph – from near to close Harry Ioannou jr, Harry Ioannou, Denae Ioannou, John Ioannou, Levi Durkin, Cliff Durkin, Ben Ioannou, Anne Ioannou, Maree Durkin, trinity Durkin and Sienna Durkin. Photo: Supplied