Vefa Alexiadou was the leading authority on Greek cookery. A bestselling author of thirteen cookbooks in Greece, she also had her own television series and regularly wrote articles for magazines and gave lectures and demonstrations on Greek recipes. She served on the board of the Centre for the Preservation of Traditional Greek Gastronomy. In 2009 she published Vefa's Kitchen with Phaidon (also released in 2017 as Greece: The Cookbook), to great critical acclaim.