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Dimitra
After the war years, the most beautiful Greek magazine, I Gynaika (The Woman) came in to our home. My mother regularly used the recipes of Chryssa Paradisis…
William Dachris
Eleni
Eleni was born and raised in her beloved Brunswick in Melbourne’s inner north, as a first generation Aussie to parents who hailed from Sparta, Greece. Her…
Mary Valle
Born to Greek immigrant parents in Melbourne, Australia, Mary was always immersed in Greek cultural and culinary traditions. Mary spent many hours in the…
Eleni
Eleni was born in Sydney to parents originating from Limassol, Cyprus. Eleni’s parents met and married in Australia, but they moved their own family back to…
Vikki Kassioras
Nicholaos Kondelos
Nicholaos (Nick) Kondelos was born in 1933 and grew up with his older sister Dafni on the Aegean island of Lesvos, in the village of Eresos.
Pam
Pamela was born and raised in Melbourne. Her parents migrated to Australia with their parents from Sparta and Kalamata in Greece’s Peloponnese in the 1960’s.
Foti
Foti’s mother Georgia migrated to Australia from Kastoria and his father Panayioti migrated from Thessaloniki, in the early 60s. Upon her arrival, Georgia went…
Theo
Theo was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, with his parents having migrated from villages along the western shores of the Peloponnese, Greece, during…
Sofia Argyropoulos
Sofia (Laskaris) Argyropoulos was born in a small village outside of Kalamata called Katsarou, in Messinia, Greece. Like most girls in Greece at that time, she…
Jacquie Brumley
My family moved to Eva Street, Malvern in 1983. We lived directly across the road from the Nicolaidis family. Our first introduction to the Nicolaidis family…
Christina
Christina was born on October 12, 1948 on the eastern seaside of the city of Kalamata. Although her mother gave birth to 11 children, only seven survived…
Nikiforo
Nikiforo was born in Kastraki, home to the Meteora in Thessaly, Greece. The oldest of three children, he moved to Australia in 1964 followed by his wife…
Evyenia
Evyenia was born in Plati, Kalamata, Greece. The youngest of six children, she grew up in a poor but loving family. She migrated to Australia in 1962, bringing…
Peter
Peter was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1940, to Anastasios Paxinos from Ithaca, and Annie Kathleen Mangan of Scottish-Irish decent. He was raised in…
Ianna
Ianna was born in Azoros, Greece, a village located on the outskirts of the town Elassona, which is situated at the foot of Mount Olympus. The village of…
Toula
Toula was born and raised in Monolofos, a small village just outside of Thessaloniki, in northern Greece. Made up of Pontian and Thracian refugees, from the…
Maria
Maria was born in Kalloni on the island of Lesvos. She is the eldest of five siblings – four sisters and one brother. Maria was raised in a poor, but warm and…
Vasiliki
Vasiliki was born in Kastraki, home to the Meteora in Thessaly, Greece. The youngest of six children, she was the only one to move to Australia in 1965 with…
Maria Dellas
Maria Dellas (nee Kostos) was born in Carlton, Victoria, Australia in 1933; her parents having migrated from Agios Saranta, Ithaca, Greece during the 1920s…