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Published 2014
Many years ago, during a wine tasting at my friend Roxani Matsa’s estate in Kantza, I tried an olive pie with an unusual orange–olive oil crust. It was prepared by Zoe Evangeliou, one of Roxani’s neighbors, an exceptional cook. I published the recipe in my newspaper column, adapting it and merging it with a Cypriot olive pie that adds sautéed leeks and plenty of mint to the olives. I used Mrs. Evangeliou’s crust, which complemented the filling beautifully. At some point Vali Manouelides, a