This isn't your usual outdoor grilled-food Greek fest, it's an indoor home-baked Greek fest. In the absence of sizzling meats over leaping flames, the many trays of food — all prepared by the Ladies Philoptochos Society of St. Spyridon — appeared very modest. I nearly passed up the moussaka, which unlike the other entrees seemingly hadn't been touched. This turned out to be just a matter of timing: The first tray had already been emptied, and mine was the initial superb slice from the second.
Also shown, from the well-provisioned sweets table: fenekia, baklava, kouriambedes, galactobureko, karithopita, halva, and koulourakia.
St. Spyridon Greek Food Festival and Bazaar
St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church, 124 Wadsworth Avenue (179th-180th Sts.), Manhattan
www.PhiloptochosDistrictDiocese.org/calendar-of-events
(The 2013 festival was held on November 8-10)
