“Life without pausing to celebrate and experience human togetherness can feel long and exhausting,” says wine and gastronomy educator and writer Florentia Kythreotou. Centered on the history of the beloved sweets and the upkeeping of traditions, her recent Transformation of Melomakarona workshop aimed to spread the holiday cheer.
The history of melomakarona begins unexpectedly, with Makaria, the ancient Greek goddess of blessed death. She embodied the concept of isterophimia, or
