It was all hands on deck in the kitchen at Akron's Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Tuesday as more than 30 women baked 400 loaves of tsourekia, a braided Greek Easter bread. All of the mixing, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Easter Sunday, Katerina "Kathy" Vainas, her sister Angie Barakos and at least 30 members of their family will enjoy roasted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's that time of year again when scores of women volunteers from the Philoptochos gather at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in ...

I did not grow up eating any specific Easter foods, beyond dyed eggs and whatever goodies my mother put in our Easter baskets. Our Easter feasts usually consisted of the same foods as any other family ...

Easter bread scented with spices from the Mediterranean again will be the star of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church's annual bake sale in Akron, Ohio. Easter bread and more than 15,000 Greek ...

Spring is here and brings along with it several religious holidays: Easter, Ramadan and Passover. Western Easter was several weeks ago, but Orthodox Easter is being observed on May 2 this year. I ...

In 1968, Theodora Contis left the Greek island of Chios to move to New Jersey, where her older sister had previously settled. Among the treasured possessions the then-21-year-old carried was a ...

Easter is the most important day of the Greek religious calendar. As a result, there’s no feast like a Greek Easter feast. When I was a child, we’d spend the day in my grandparents’ Greek-Cypriot ...

On Easter Sunday, Katerina "Kathy" Vainas, her sister Angie Barakos and at least 30 members of their family will enjoy roasted lamb, sweet bread and crack red-colored eggs with one another, ...