Dean Kalimniou reflects on the craziness of the festive season

“It smells like pastourma in here.”

“Solomon, I have surpassed you.” Emperor Justinian

Thee campaign for Australian recognition of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides has intensified and the issue has reached the Australian mainstream like never before.

“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” Alfred Hitchcock

In complete disregard for Peter Ekonomides’ feelings, he of ‘Rebranding Greece’ fame, the fair country of Hellas has been rebranded

To the martyrs of Lingiades and Kommeno, then, on this seventieth anniversary of their slaughter, let us resoundingly cry OXI to the besmirchment of their memories

“One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”

One could easily be forgiven for thinking that we are back in the days of the Weimar Republic, starts Dean Kalimniou in this week’s diatribe

Dean Kalimniou explores the essence and origins of the Greek dish patsas – and let’s us into his own personal journey with said delicacy