Filo triangles stuffed with feta

Tyropitákia, which means ‘small cheese pie’ in Greek, is the best airport food you will ever find if you’re flying out of Greece or Turkey — which is probably a sad enough event for you to need an extra-tasty snack.

Whether it was indeed from Greece is more debatable. It all started with an ancient Greek cheese cake called placenta — and no, it did not contain any human body parts (thank heavens). But even Cato, the ancient Roman historian, had a recipe for it, before