Chicken Soup with Egg-Lemon Sauce

THIS typically Greek variation on a much-loved theme is the traditional one-pot Christmas dish on Rhodes and the other Dodecanese islands. Christmas in the Greek islands is not the big feast celebrated in the United States or northern Europe: Easter and the Virgin Mary’s Assumption (August 15) are more important island festivals.

Until the late 1960s, chicken was considered a great delicacy on the islands. It was the most expensive of all meats and, except for important feasts, was