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My Big Fat Greek Taverna
At my taverna most of our customers were wonderful, appreciative people who became regulars. Many became lifelong friends. But then we had the difficult and demanding customers who abused our hospitality with rude comments and insults. They pushed my buttons and tested my patience and diplomatic skills. I bit my tongue and retreated to the kitchen to vent my frustrations in a torrent of swearing, voicing bad, mad and even anarchic thoughts I couldn’t utter at the tables.
These are the funniest moments in the book. And nobody is spared the sarcastic satire. The Greeks, the Germans, the Scots, the Americans and especially the English all get their fair share.
Matriarchs, Meze and the Evil Eye
In this humorous coming-of-age memoir, young Costa finds himself in the middle of a tempestuous matriarchal triangle. His sulky young mother, Victoria, is forced to share her home with her conservative Greek mother-in-law and her bossy, divorced sister-in-law.
A raucous war erupts in the kitchen between the three women – and not only over oven territory. The women also compete for the affection of their beloved “Kostaki” by spoiling him with endless culinary treats.
Young Costa, the bemused (and often confused) spectator and narrator, watches as his hard-working cotton-trader father tries to cope with the three women’s never-ending complaints and demands. And then there’s the evil eye of envy…
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