Taste of Greece

Today Duane and I headed to the uptown area of Minneapolis for the 22nd Annual Taste of Greece Festival at St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church.  Every year it gets better and better!  This year, it migrated into the parking lot, with food tents and live music, as well as the carnival games and big bouncy buildings for kids.

We haven't made it there the last couple of years, and we usually go on Sunday evening, when the bakery stand has already sold out of baklava, but decided to go when it OPENED this year, and it was GREAT!  Instead of paying cash at the food tent, you now buy tickets to exhange for your meal.  I had the spanikopita and Greek fries, and Duane had the pastitsio...YUM!

After our FABULOUS lunch. we watched a food demonstration on the other side of the building.  The lady doing the demo made...SPANIKOPITA!  After watching her master the triangle wrapping technique, with RAPIDLY drying phyllo dough, we headed inside, watched some Greek dancers, purchased our baklava, looked around the GORGEOUS church complex, and headed out.

It's SO COOL to have such a variety of cultures and opportunities to explore them here in the twin cities!  What a cool place to live! 

Here's hoping YOU were able to enjoy festivities from "another culture" this weekend too!