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Jon Peters | “Any secret family recipes that need to be shared or passed down?”

“Any secret family recipes that need to be shared or passed down?”

“Lots of recipes, lots of Greek recipes. I'm the only one that you know, knows it. But again, my cousins, who are very Greek, you know, even though they're third generation, they are more, their everything revolves around the church with them. They have a lot of of contact with the Greek community. And so they know a lot. But I'm like the last. I know a lot of the old stuff. I'm slowly trying to pass it along. My cousin wrote me the other day and she's probably 30 and she said that some of my friends from when I was a little kid were around was I interested in touching base with them? And I said, sure. There's nobody left to do that kind of stuff, you know, that my grandmother did and mother, mostly my grandmother, did all this, you know, work by hand. There's desserts and in the Greek home, every holiday has a different series of dessert. It's all it's very Greek. It's very Greek and very sweet. Cloyingly sweet desserts. I did cook a lot. I was the only boy in the house and they were all women. So I did I did learn a lot then. But, you know, subsequently I went to culinary school. That's where my first love for it came from because I would sit home and cook with them all the time, and bake with the, you know, all women. Me and all old, old Greek women. And they would love it. And all my cousins were all girls. So they would, when I was little, they would love to dress me up as a girl. And they would love to dress me up as a priest. Those were funny things. They would put makeup on and dresses and stuff like that. So I'm surprised I never became bi, you know, I was dressed so often in women's clothes.”

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