It started as an anthology of texts about souvlaki from Greek and global literature, a collection of excerpts from articles and books that were desperately few.

It then evolved into a research project on souvlaki in Greece from the time of Homer, and even earlier, to today's bastardized versions (which are NOT souvlaki).

Next, we exhaustively researched the souvlaki of Athens and conducted countless interviews, gathered testimonies and stories from souvlaki vendors, and began to piece together an incredible story that was much larger than we expected.

We tried countless souvlakis, almost from every souvlaki shop in Attica, daily, for years, spoke with people who have studied Greek food (all foreigners), ancient and modern, searched for a plethora of exhausted and rare books – we even found chronologies from Byzantine soldiers' campaigns that detail what they ate – narratives from travelers, folklorists, we searched for songs (almost all satirical, because souvlaki is humble and scorned and nobody has ever taken it seriously).

The result is this book, which contains not a single photograph and is entirely hand-designed by Konstantinos Fytdanis, and represents the first attempt to record the history of the most popular Greek street food, perhaps the most well-known Greek dish across the world.