How To Make Greek Yogurt At Home
- Lauren Chattman - Newsday
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- May 22, 2013
It is amazing that people still get excited about yogurt, considering that it has been around since 6000 B.C., when Neolithic herdsmen discovered that storing milk in animal skin containers curdled th...
The Merger
- Phyllis (Kiki) Sembos
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- August 16, 2012
John sat among his friends, coffee before him and stated with glee that, soon, the monthly burden of sending money to his sisters in Greece will terminate. “Katingo has found herself a husband, at las...
Crushed
- Phyllis (Kiki) Sembos
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- July 19, 2012
It was almost five o’clock. I chucked my homework aside and dashed out of my house, situated in brick building in Inwood, to stand on the stoop like I always did that that hour. I was in love – again....
Greek Actors of The Silent Film Era
- Steve Frangos
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- July 19, 2012
Part 2
The era of silent film can be roughly marked between 1894 and 1927. During that period Greeks in Hollywood often enjoyed a privileged position. From the early 1900s to the Great Depression, Al...
GREEK AMERICAN STORIES: What’s Fare - Is Fare
- Phyllis (Kiki) Sembos
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- July 05, 2012
Papa didn’t like crowds. That’s why he got out at 59th Street station, adjacent to Central Park, where he could stretch his legs, take a breath, and sit on a bench until the rush hour crowd thinned ou...
GREEK-AMERICAN STORIES: “Boo-Cee-Fa-Loze”
- Kiki Sembos
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- June 07, 2012
My papa was an avid reader of Greek history and mythology. In Simi, when it was under Italian occupation, from the end of WWI until 1945, he read Greek history whenever a book was available.
And he w...
GREEK-AMERICAN STORIES: TAKEN!
- Phyllis (Kiki) Sembos
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- May 24, 2012
The perennial bachelor, Kipreos, arrived late at Dixon’s cafeteria, seating himself among his friends, John, Dimos, George, and Yiannis.
“No coffee?” Yiannis asked, worried he’d be asked to treat.
“...
GREEK-AMERICAN STORIES: “Panayia, Panayia”
- William Koonan Mentsas
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- May 17, 2012
Uncle Sophocles and Aunt Andromahi were the respective patriarch and matriarch on Hellenic Hill. Well into their nineties, they were a motley and backward pair from the town of Ploumari on the island ...
Vitamin D, a panoply for health defense
- Dr. Frixos O. Goussis
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- May 07, 2012
Vit D is a collection of fat soluble steroids, the 2 dominant forms of which are vitamins D2(ergo calciferol) and D3(cholecalciferol). Vitamin D2 is manufactured by invertebrates and plants after expo...
VP and Soon-to-Be Author, at 13
- Theodore Kalmoukos
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- March 15, 2012
MANHASSET, NY – John Petrakis, a smart 13 year-old eighth grader, is Vice President of the Manhasset Preservation Society, and is coauthoring a book with Norman Nemec, the Preservation’s chairman. Pet...
Athan Galanis: Odyssey of the Seven Seas
- Theodore Kalmoukos
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- February 23, 2012
BOSTON, MA – Athan Galanis of Boston heaved up anchor from his homeland Paralia-Kymis and traveled as a navigation officer in all the ranks of captainship to all the “Seven Seas” and many lands.
The...
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