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Dora Houpis

Life

Valle showcases the best of Greek, Mediterranean veggie recipes in latest book launch

Greek food author Meni Valle’s latest cookbook on vegetarian Mediterranean cuisine could not have been released in a more fitting setting on Tuesday. Launched in the inner-city Hellenic suburb of …

Dialogue

Olives and the scared “moria”

The thick white plastic bag sat by the front door, A present from a compatriot, who hailed from Greece up north. His village’s soil rich and plentiful, the trees glistened …

Life

Pickled Greek stuffed peppers and other Mediterranean veggie fare for year-round eating

Mediterranean diet afficionado and food author Meni Valle has gone vegetarian in her latest cookbook showcasing nearly 100 vegetable recipes from Greece and southern Europe. Her latest cookbook, The Mediterranean …

News

Teachers, parents rally as confusion looms over Greek story time at Richmond library

Greek teachers, parents and grandparents are preparing for a fight after they say Yarra Council quietly axed its popular Greek-language story reading program earlier this month. But Yarra Council refutes …

News

Locals rally as Greek story time at Richmond library under threat

Greek-Australian inner-city Melbourne mother, Maria Tsakakis, says preserving the Greek language and sharing Hellenic culture with younger generations is under threat as she fights to keep Greek storybook reading, at …

Life

Hellenic film feast to delight at Europa movie festival

Greek film enthusiasts will be treated to six Greek-language films, plus a retrospective of the recent Golden Globe winning Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’s work, at the third Europa!Europa film festival, …

Features

Joyce Ave, Sth Oakleigh: from Anglo-Saxon working class to multicultural middle class

It doesn’t matter where I set up home or for how long, in times of turmoil and change, I always come back to Oakleigh. More specifically, my parent’s house in …

Dialogue

IBAC sealed Premier’s downfall, but Andrews’ COVID-19 response will be what defines him

Daniel Andrews’s fate was sealed on Wednesday October 6, 2021. That’s when the “Age” reported that the Victorian Premier was being investigated by the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) regarding …

Dialogue

Caring for elderly parents Greek style

My Greek parents’ house is like a foreign country: they do things differently there*. The hot water sticker is on the cold tap and the cold water sticker is on …

Features

A victim of circumstance: a grandfather’s story of 23 years without his family

Pamela Gonos the family history enthusiast now understands why it took her grandfather twenty five years to bring his son to Australia from Greece. Gonos knew nothing about her grandfather, …

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