O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek Americans c v A wEEkLY GrEEk AmErICAN PuBLICATION www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 14, ISSUE 704 April 9-15 , 2011 $1.50 Fasting and Nutrition: Methodios Bars Sacraments at St. George’s How to Eat Right A Rift Splits Boston Metropolis and During Meatless Lent Church of Lynn, MA By Georgia Kofinas tributes of de-toxing our bodies By Theodore Kalmoukos Special to The National Herald from the animal fats and over - TNH Staff Writer abundance of protein from meat ATHENS- Today people spend and dairy products. He pre - BOSTON - A schism is develop - thousands of dollars on short- sented the benefits of following ing in the Greek Orthodox Me - term detox programs in luxury the Mediterranean Diet, consid - tropolis of Boston because of a spa centers while the guidelines ered to be one of the healthiest sanction ordered by Metropoli - of the Orthodox fast have just diets in the world. Based on the tan Methodios prohibiting the as much to offer; not to mention traditional foods of the inhabi - the historic parish of St. George that it is a long-term “invest - tants of the Mediterranean in Lynn, Massachusetts from cel - ment” since it is incorporated Basin, especially the Greek peo - ebrating the Holy Sacraments, into the lifestyle of the Orthodox ple, this diet calls for the con - including weddings and bap - faithful. However, one of the sumption of red meat only one tisms. In a letter dated March major concerns about fasting is or two times a month and a lim - 25, on the Feast Day of the An - whether or not our bodies will ited intake of milk and dairy nunciation of the Mother of God be depleted of important nutri - products. The base of the and the commemoration of the ents when abstaining from meat Mediterranean Diet pyramid Independence of Greece from and dairy products. There are a consists of whole grain breads the Ottoman Occupation, Father myriad of excuses used by those and cereals, pasta, potatoes and Theodore Barbas, Chancellor of who find fasting difficult or un - rice. Fruit, vegetables, legumes the Metropolis of Boston told desirable. The truth of the mat - and nuts make up the other Katherine Griffin and Christo - ter is, however, that not only do large share of the daily diet. pher Huber that they could not Lenten foods offer an excellent These are basically the foods have their wedding at St. source of the basic nutrients, but consumed during fasting peri - George’s and told them to make they are also simple to prepare. ods. Olive oil is the basic fat other arrangements. Barbas Recently I was asked to par - used in Greek cuisine, especially wrote: “As you may have ticipate in a seminar on fasting Lenten cuisine, and has proved learned, due to canonical and organized by the women’s aux - to be beneficial for keeping cho - administrative matters, no iliary of Kalamata in the prefec - lesterol levels down while pro - Sacraments are permitted at the ture of Messinia of the southern viding essential vitamins and Most of the Parthenon is restored now, and millions of tourists every year from around the Saint George Parish in Lynn un - Peloponnese. The purpose of the antioxidants. The overall health world still make the trek up the famed hill of the ancient Acropolis to see it. With Greece’s til further notice. We are sad - seminar was to enlighten the lo - benefits of keeping the fast in - crushing debt, some critics have raised the idea of selling the country’s symbol as the government dened that this affects your cal inhabitants regarding the clude: prepares a list of assets to be privatized or sold. Wedding schedule for Saturday, benefits of fasting and to pro - • Lowering of cholesterol October 15, 2011. Please call mote the regional Lenten cui - levels and triglycerides in the my office so that we may assist sine. The first speaker was a blood you making other arrange - priest who spoke on the spiritual • Regulating sugar levels in Unthinkable: Is the Acropolis for Sale? ments. Should this Canonical aspects of fasting and how it is the blood and checking blood sanction be lifted, we will notify beneficial for both the body and pressure you immediately.” This develop - soul. He focused on the teach - • Protecting the body from ATHENS – The looming priva - azine The Atlantic. Douglas Up until now, the premier did ment for St. George’s to be ings of the Church fathers and certain forms of cancer tization or sale of state lands McIntyre, editor of the 24/7 not want to face voter ire if pos - placed outside the sacramental explained the Orthodox belief • Aiding in the proper func - and assets to raise $71.14 bil - Wall Street web site, wrote: “Af - sible. It is enough that citizens canonicity, which constitutes a that the body and soul are one. tion of the large intestine lion to stave off bankruptcy and ter months of denials, Greek will suffer the results of auster - “schism” speaking from a theo - Saint John Chrysostom, a force - • Providing anti-aging prop - meet demands of international Prime Minister George Papacon - ity that cut some of their salaries logical and ecclesiological view ful 4th Century Church father, erties creditors who’ve loaned Greece stantinou admitted the country and raised their taxes.” Greece point, came about because the tells us that the activities of the My presentation was based $150 billion has even raised the may be forced to sell some of has a staggering near $400 bil - Parish Council and the General soul are determined by the con - on the nutritional aspects of the unlikely specter that national its property. That means that the lion debt and has turned to the Assembly of the 106-year-old St. ditions of our body. Hence, by Lenten cuisine and its practical symbols such as the Acropolis unfathomable may be possible: idea of selling some of its public George’s Church has refused to cleansing our bodies from the applications. With Lent begin - could be sold. The unseemly could the Acropolis soon be on entities, such as railways, to pre - pay a $20,000 increase in its an - toxic foods we usually eat (meat ning this year at the threshold idea, first raised last year by the auction block, sold to the vent insolvency. nual allocation to the Archdio - and dairy products), we also of spring, there is a rich variety German parliamentarians ired highest bidder? Though the The notion of selling the cese. The hike, which would cleanse our souls and of ingredients from both what that their country is putting up wonder of the Ancient World Acropolis, the national symbol have raised the church’s annual strengthen our willpower to is left of the winter crops and much of the Greek bailout may escape this fate, lesser- of Greece, was treated as a joke allocation to $88,000, was de - ward off temptations. The sec - from the arrival of fresh sea - funds, was repeated – perhaps known state assets may have to by Greeks, but got enough at - manded by the Archdiocese, and ond speaker was a cardiologist tongue in cheek – in a recent be sold as Greece looks to dig who presented the beneficial at - Continued on page 7 article by in the respected mag - itself out of its financial hole. Continued on page 9 Continued on page 4 Tina Fey, Teutonic Greek, is Kotovos’ Cupcakes are Luring the Greeks not a Troll, But She’s Funny By Andy Dabilis And Angelike Contis TNH Staff Writers By Janet Maslin as one of the blurbs on the back New York Times of Bossypants, her dagger-sharp, ATHENS – The lines are form - extremely funny new book for ing outside Hamptons Cup - “Tina Fey is an ugly, pear- which even the blurbs are cakes, even though it’s off a shaped, bitchy, overrated troll.” clever. (“Totally worth it.” — main street in the fashionable Somebody once wrote that on a Trees.) She also includes it in neighborhood of Kifissia, tucked mean-spirited Web site, whence the book’s Dear Internet chapter, into a serene setting behind an - it could have vanished into which she treats as a happy oc - other store, because the word is oblivion. But Ms. Fey liked the casion to eviscerate a few well- out that the goods being offered remark too much to let it go. So chosen haters. “To say I’m an by Nicole Kotovos – trans - she has used it (sans “bitchy”) overrated troll, when you have planted from Upper Manhattan never even seen me guard a – are irresistible. She’s making bridge, is patently unfair,” she Greeks love cupcakes. argues. She goes on to take is - Here’s what the site Athens sue with the writer’s terminol - Daily Secret said: “We recently Youth Shines ogy (what if she got her shape strolled down Levidou Street in from sitting in business-class air - Kifissia and were surprised to line seats too often?), thank him catch a whiff of the sweet aroma at Greek for his attention (“there’s no of fresh-baked cupcakes. At first such thing as bad press!”) and we thought we were just day - suggest that it would take the dreaming of our last visit to New Festival Hubble telescope to locate his York, where cupcakes have un - tiny genitals. “Affectionately, dergone a major revivial. When By Stavros Marmarinos Tina,” she concludes. we followed our nose into the TNH Staff Writer Why did Ms.