Customs, traditions, and authentic recipes for cooking and confectionery. Homelands do not die, nor can they be forgotten from our memory. As long as we belong to these homelands, they belong to us as well.

We cannot erase our history, our traditions, our hagiology, and our martyrdom. We can only add fragments in our effort to piece together the mosaic from the sorrow of Hellenism.

Let this book be another fragment of love for the homelands of the East.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]