A Greek Cypriot Christmas

Steph Green reminisces about growing up in a Greek Cypriot household and all the delicious flavours that accompanied her every Christmas...

What’s Christmas like in your household?

“My dad and my uncles fight over who gets to eat the lamb brain,” says Toula, the main character in the 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding. “And then my Aunt Voula forks the eyeball and chases me around with it, trying to make me eat it because it’ll make me smart. We’re always together, just eating, eating, eating.”

Perfectly summing up the sheer obsession with food found in Greek households, this film is often offered up as an example when Greek people are asked about their festive…

Read the rest in the December 2019 issue of Reader’s Digest UK