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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.
Americans in recent years couldn’t get enough of Greek yogurt and that’s largely because what they were buying wasn’t really Greek yogurt, but Greek-style or just had the label Greek slapped on it.
It’s easy to be confused in supermarkets and Greek yogurt makers largely ceded the market in the United States to Chobani – with a Kurdish owner from Turkey – who ran away with it for years.
The site Tasting Table said buyer beware. “You might spot ‘Greek’ yogurt lining the shelves of dairy products at your local grocery store, but the yogurt you’re buying may not actually be as Greek as you think,” it cautioned.
The Greek company Fage was the first to label their yogurt Greek, the site said of the few Greek companies selling in the United States, including Olympiana, which uses the true straining method with a fine mesh cloth to make it genuinely thick, naturally.
Read the ingredients, even on brand names like Cabot and Yoplait because in many cases you’ll find thickeners and additives and companies short cutting the multi-straining process required to make real Greek yogurt, said Eat This, Not That.
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 (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.