Irena and Greek vs. Italian food

Irena Tsangarakis, co-owner of Aposto in Highland Park, is Greek, but says Italian food present more of a challenge. She and her sister Christine offer both at their restaurant, viisited by the Munchmobile crew. (Video by Pete Genovese).

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[paulyseb]

If you asekd people what they would rather eat, I think many would say Pizza over a Souvlaki but again that is my opinion!

[Le0xoxBaBy04]

honestly. im 100% greek, and italian is my favorite food. i love being greek, and proud i am greek. but i love my pizza :)

[tonythenutter]

i lov italian food and greek food pasta and pizza is naughty but moussaka and sheftalia is more naughtyier

[Johnnystrychnine]

Correction. Latin was spoken, written and taught among the cleric class in Constantinople too to circa 900 AD.

[Johnnystrychnine]

Italians, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greeks, Arabs, maltese, Turkic, their foods are all very similar. But Italians, Spaniards, Greeks, eat more fish, look at the geographical locations and that explains it all.

[Johnnystrychnine]

In the Western part of the Roman Empire, that is a false assumption. Just because there were Greeks colonies in pockets of Southern Italy does not mean the Roman Empire was Greek, that is flatly wrong. It's a fact. Latin was spoken in the Roman Empire up until about 670 AD. It is the way it is, even later! The Latin language never died. It was still spoken during the time of Charlemagne.

[Johnnystrychnine]

@xstamdecay Irene Greek food is beautiful, I love it, but with regards to your historical comment that is incorrect. The Turks were in that part of the middle East during the time of Mohammed, and there were Turkic speakers present in the period of 900 AD. During the time the Muslim caliphate dominated that region of the Middle East. Arabic and Greek was spoken there but the language of Adminstration in the Byzantine period was greek, that was 300 years later. Greek was not spoken in the...

[xstamdecay]

@Johnnystrychnine my friend during byzantine timea the turkish lunguage was not present in eastern empere sinse turks/seltzuks haven t arrived yet... they did later about 1000-1100AC and that was the time when byzantium had its downturn.... as for the greek language it was formally spoken not only in east but also in the west, as for the jealousy of greeks towards italians thats smthng i hear for the first time...

[theseventhson95]

Souvlaki over Pizza , unless the pizza is nice. But a good souvlaki ( kostas paidia mou ) is always the best stuff.

[Johnnystrychnine]

...so Roman West drifted towards West, spanish, frankish Germanic. Greek East drifted towards Turkish, middle Eastern. fact. America was born in Italy. fact. Italy was America before the Western american continent became what it is today. So if you see an Italian down your street and he looks American, that is because Italians produced American from their sperm eggs. fact.

[Johnnystrychnine]

FYI. The Western Roman and Eastern Roman divided circa 530 AD, Western Empire spoke Latin. Eastern Empire spoke Greek-Anatolian-Turkich. Istanbul-Constantinople ring a bell? Try Turkey. Consequently. Western Empire spoke latin. And dare I say it even thought it will hurt Greeks. Greeks have allways been jealous of Romans, Latins, Italians. Fact. Nothing against Greeks, I have had one or two close Greeks friends in the past, male and female. I did say one or two, right?

[Johnnystrychnine]

@no1ismetallica Just like the Greeks borrowed from Egyptians and Persians It's just the way things go!