![]() There’s a children’s play area, and in the adjoining building there were authentic Greek costumes, cooking demonstrations, wine tastings, and exhibits of historic sites, all celebrating the Greek Orthodox Community’s Hellenic culture and traditions. Be Greek For a Day, and Dine With the Gods. Signs said, Stop Worrying and Be Happy, with a picture of Greek worry beads another showed a donkey with the words, Greek 4 Wheel Drive. Impromptu dancers were engaged in Greek circle dancing, kids and oldsters, families, young girls, joining in whenever they felt like it. Live musicians played the oud and the bouzouki, lute-type stringed instruments, and pan pipes carried the melody, while drums kept up the beat. Blue and white Greek flags and star-spangled American ones waved in the breeze, and, at the heart of it all was the music and the dance, under a big open white pavilion roof. ![]() This is a Food Festival, and so much more. The spits are turned electrically, but the fire is good old Hephaestus at work. The lambs roast while workers bring more white hot coals, and shovel new charcoal on the starter brazier. These whole lambs are not carved, they’re split with an ax, and this is as close as we will ever get to the feasting that Homer wrote about. There is one man who cleaves the lamb into serving portions. Racks of lamb turning in spits, 20 of them at a time, and the smell of fat sizzling, greeted you as you enter the platia, or town square. You enter through a little agora, a lane of vendor’s booths that carry everything from t-shirts and Holy Honey (delicious), to olive wood carvings, charms to ward off the evil eye, and fine gold earrings. Apollo saw to it that on Saturday the sun was shining after weeks of gloomy weather. Sunshine and white tent peaks announced the Greek Food Festival at St.
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