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By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington
Published 1995
One of the most famous Greek dishes is spanakotyropitta, the spinach-and-Feta filo pastry pie of a thousand Aegean island holidays, 2,000 Cypriot restaurants and 3,000,000 attempts globally to cook it at home. The combination of spinach and cheese has always made sublime culinary magic; for some of us, however, its more obvious manifestations have been leaden and prosaic.
We must all be thankful that filo - or fyllo or phyllo - the wafer-thin pastry of the Middle East, is now winkin