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Making Authentic Greek Gyros at Home

Making Authentic Greek Gyros at Home
How do you make your own gyro?

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Signs are All There

Some of us, we can all admit, do not have a great sense of direction. And this is especially true when we are in a completely new place in our own country or if we travel overseas for the first time. We tend to rely heavily on maps, the GPS on our smartphones or we try to find a local who understands our language and is willing to help us find our way around. And most of the time it's because many of the signs we might use to lead us are in a language we may not understand. Being...

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Greek Road Signs

Greek Road Signs

Greek road signs painted and reproduced to look just like the signs in Greece will give friends and loved ones memories of the home land.

 

 

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Great Inventions of the Greeks

Greek culture and history is, in a way, a history of the human world, as the Greeks have been around for thousands of years - even if Greece was itself conquered by others (like the Roman and Ottoman empires). Just as the people of Greece have lived on and survived for hundreds of generations, many inventions and innovations have lived on through various cultural changes as well. We would like to take this time to acknowledge and appreciate some of the great Greek innovations that are vital to even today's cultural and societal fabric. What we will mention here are...

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That's English? It's All Greek to Me!

There is a reason why English is perhaps the mostly widely understood language in the world and is often the official language of much international business and government interactions - it contains words, phrases and grammatical tricks that have been borrowed, lifted, modified or flat-out stolen from other world languages, including the "Romantics" like Greek, Latin, Spanish, Italian, etc. But with hundreds of thousands of words in the English language, and English being used for dozens of generations now, it's next to impossible to know where some words originate  without looking in a dictionary. There are even some words that...

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