Hello Gyro – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)
Many scholars and historians consider the ancient Greeks to be the germinal culture and progenitor of Western civilization as we know it. Greek civilization has been immensely influential in the arts and sciences, politics and language, philosophy and education. It may surprise you then to learn that what many consider the archetypal Greek dish is, in chronological terms, a relative newcomer to one of the world’s oldest civilizations. There is no historical source to prove definitively that the gyros were first made any earlier than the 1950s when they are believed to have been invented in Livadia, a city in central Greece. The first souvlaki on a wooden stick, by the way, was also invented in Livadia at about the…