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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
If you’re willing to fork over up to $195 per person and like traditional Greek food to look like tiny French delicacies you’re going to love what the Houston fine-dining restaurant March is doing to it.
It has reopened with a celebration of Greek cuisine and Greek-inspired cocktails and wine and featuring a snack tile of bite-sized kataifi and shrimp, grape and Cypriot halloumi cheese, olive oil and escargot, and loukoumas and foie gras.
The owners and chefs approached the topic of the food and wine of Greece collectively, creating a menu with ingredients that are likely evident to many, said Paper City magazine in its review.
Don’t be looking for a big plate of moussaka, because choices tend toward the more exotic, starting with those appetizers like barley bread and saganaki with Greek olive oil – for $18.
Culinary Director Amber Burling said, “this menu is going to be the most recognizable for our guests, as so many people are familiar with Greek cuisine. Our challenge was making sure we touch on the familiarity of the flavors but also dive deep into the history and diversity of the ingredients.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a hospital courtyard in the Gaza Strip early Monday killed at least four people and triggered a fire that swept through a tent camp for people displaced by the war, leaving more than two dozen with severe burns, according to Palestinian medics.
BOSTON, MA – The Alpha Omega Council has announced its distinguished honorees for the 2024 Lifetime Achievement, Philhellene, and Emerging Leader awards to be presented at the anticipated annual Honors Gala November 2 at the InterContinental Boston.
NICOSIA - A memorandum of understanding for joint projects was signed between Cyprus’ Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy with the United Arab Emirates’s Khazna, that country’s biggest operator in the data sector.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With characteristic bravado, Donald Trump has vowed that if voters return him to the White House, “inflation will vanish completely.
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian man was rescued in the stormy Sea of Okhotsk after surviving for more than two months in a tiny inflatable boat that lost its engine, but his brother and nephew have died, officials said Tuesday.