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Harry Karapalides
Greece… made in Mexico
A few weeks ago I was traveling out of state for business and when it was time for dinner, I found a nice quaint Greek restaurant. It was middle priced with table cloths and had…
Greek Resolutions For 2014
It’s the New Year and everyone makes resolutions – I’ll start dieting, I’ll be a better person, I’ll sign up for Obamacare (I didn’t say it would be easy), etc. Here are my resolutions for…
It’s That Time of the Year
The end of the year is almost here and it’s time to list some of my favorite sayings or terms that were “coined” in the many blogs I wrote over the past year. Many were…
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?
Here’s an interesting question poised to me the other day. If you were having a Christmas dinner, and you could invite seven people, living or deceased, who would you invite and why? Interesting. I started…
Yia’sou And Yo
In 1979, my cousin George and I flew to Greece for a two week trek. I was 20 and he was 17. On the airplane flight to Greece, as we were about to land in…
Prominent Greek-American Reporter, Ike Pappas – Front Row Seat To History
November 22, 2013 will mark the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald and for those that were alive on November 22, 1963, they remember…
Release the Kraken!
We all read, studied, and learned about the 12 Greek Olympian Gods and the rest of their dysfunctional pantheon of miscreants, mischief-makers, and scoundrels. Now don’t look shocked. When we were young we read about…
Re-Greeking
From the 1960s through the 1980s, I had a friend once, contrary to popular belief, that came from a very “Greek” family. You know the type – they spoke Greek all the time, cooked Greek…
Baseball: As Greek As Apple Pie?
What’s more American than Baseball? Americans truly love the game and the boys of summer. The smell of the grass, the sound of the crack of the bat, the 7th inning stretch, and, of course,…
In Canada Feta Is Greek!
To Greeks and non-Greeks all over the world, feta cheese is Greek. Traditional feta is a brined-curd cheese of 30% goat’s milk mixed with sheep’s milk. In 2002, feta was granted protected designation of origin…
Mycenae… Ruins That You May Not Know But Should
On September 13, 2013, CNN published, Digging Deep: 15 Ancient Ruins You May Not Know. Included in the list of sites are the Temple and Tomb of Confucius at Qufu, China; Diocletian’s Palace in Split,…
A Patriot’s Death Ignites the Struggle to Free Macedonia
It’s 1904 and the ancient land known as Macedonia, once ruled over by King Philip and Alexander the Great, but now part of the Ottoman Empire, is, once again, at war. There is a struggle…
