Somewhere between a kitchen in northern Greece and a family restaurant that fed people for over forty years, Stella Kalaitzidou Bueno learned how to cook. Not from a book. From her great-grandmother Stavroula, whose kitchen door opened onto a garden full of pine trees and herbs. From her grandmother Georgia, who taught her technique with quiet precision. From her Aunt Voula, who ran her own restaurant and showed her that a great kitchen is also an organised one. And from her mother Maria, who carried new ideas back and forth between Greece and Germany for decades.

Now Stella lives in Brasília, and she has opened her kitchen to the city.

A Taste of Greece is an intimate cooking class held in a private home in Brasília, designed for expats, diplomats, and anyone who loves good food and genuine stories. In small groups of no more than eight people, participants cook classic Greek dishes from scratch, side by side with Stella, in English, with their hands in the dough and the kind of warmth that only a family kitchen can offer.

Classes take place once a month and run between two and four hours, depending on the menu. Each edition focuses on a different set of dishes, so no two classes are exactly alike. To give everyone flexibility, two separate dates are offered each month, one on a weekday and one on a weekend, so that both working schedules and busy family weeks can be accommodated.

Spots are limited to eight per session. Participants bring their own ingredients, a full shopping list is provided in advance, along with tips on where to find specific items in Brasília. Everything else, the kitchen, the equipment, the olive oil, and a few surprises, is taken care of by Stella.

At the end of the class, everyone sits down together to taste what they have made. The rest goes home with them.