She managed to become known through her cooking throughout the country. In recent years, the blows of fate have been cruel and successive. From getting to know the man of her life, in the mid-1950s, at their marriage in 1959, in the following years hugging her two daughters who were about to lose prematurely and from there in a first plan, doing what she knew as few. Her cooking was awarded and discussed, with Vefa Alexiadou being professionally acclaimed within even the border. Her death, at 91 years old, casts the curtain of a life that had everything. From joys and successes, to sorrows, difficulties and distress that have moved an entire country in recent years. Vefa Alexiadou left her last breath yesterday morning (25-11-2024), at the First Pathological Clinic of the hospital Papageorgiou in Thessaloniki. 10 years after Alexia’s daughter died and 9 after Angela died. Her second child. The losses of her two children, in 2014 and 2015, were hits she never surpassed. Nine years ago, her life countdown had actually begun. Vefa Alexiadou was ” drawn” from the spotlight and lived in Halkidiki. The first major blow, the loss that seemed to not exceed was the death of her husband in 2006. The daughters of Angeliki and Alexia wanted her close to them, after the death of their father, but Vefa Alexiadou preferred to stay in Halkidiki. They had preceded decades of complete professional success. Vefa Alexiadou is described as our national cook. Her recipes are awarded, her books become repulsive and she works successfully on the largest private channels. She has made her love for cooking a profession and has every reason to feel justified. Vefa Alexiadou, born in Volos in 1933, studied chemistry at Aristotle University, worked for 13 years in a company and then devoted herself to cooking. Vefa Alexiadou improvises and creates. It opens shops with kitchen types that succeed and earns the bet with customers for years… The life of Vefa Alexiadou was more than intense. With great joys, but also calamities that impossible not to break. In her last years she lived in Halkidiki, avoided the lights of publicity and when she saw the end approaching, she said she expected to be reunited with her children and husband, who loved more than anything else on her life’s journey…
Vefa Alexiadou: The joys and pickles in the life of the “national cook” through her own words
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