Arni sto fourno is the typical Greek Easter meal—as everyone the world over knows! And when I was a kid, the Greek men—in the mainly immigrant neighborhood I grew up in—would pack up in ginormous 1970s-model American cars (“boats,” we called them) and head out to the countryside on Holy Week, only to return hours later with live sheep stored in the trunks of the cars. This is not a joke. You see, rather than go to butchers, these old-school alpha-male types went straight to source—th