Actually, they are very similar. To some extent, the same is true of Turkish cuisine. First of all, all three countries use the same basic ingredients. We use more or less the same meat (turkey uses less pork, Italy uses less mutton and goat), the same vegetables and more or less the same herbs. All three countries eat a lot of fresh bread. So, basically, the details are different. The fact is that if you can cook any of these three cooking methods, you can easily learn recipes from all the other cooking methods, because all the basics are the same. I should also add Albanian food and maybe Croatian coastal food. )

Just Italy and Greece. Obviously, Gree is a fairly large country with complicated territory (mainland part, Peloponnesian Peninsula, all small islands, Crete, and some things of its own), and the territory of Italy is almost as complicated as it is, three times as complicated as it is. So we're talking about a lot of changes in each country. But if you narrow it down to the cooking methods of Apulia and Heptan (ionian islands in western Greece), you will easily find that there are many similar foods and recipes in these two countries. Mutton and pasta are recipes in both regions. If you go north, you will find that Corfu's cooking is even influenced by Venetians (for example, Mandorato is a very popular dessert in Veneto and Corfu).

If you only know Italian and Greek food through their Americanized versions, you can't see the similarities between them. For beginners, American Italian food is not Italian food. This is a very unique way of cooking, which developed from the same source, but the background of development is completely different, and finally it is quite different from Italian food. By the same token, American Greek cuisine finally highlights some Middle Eastern characteristics that do not exist or are very subtle in traditional Greek cuisine. This means that Italian and Greek cuisines seen in the United States are not only very different from Italian and Greek cuisines: the differences between them far exceed the real differences in their contexts.