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Introduction

and special ways of celebrating hol- idays. And of course, they had food. Sharing meals with family, friends, and even strangerswas away of life in Greece. And when Greeks went

to their newcountries, it was an im- portant way to bring their old lives with themeven as they started new ones. As an old Greek saying goes, “If the pot boils, friendship lives.”