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Celebrating the joy of being Cypriot
December 27, 2021
Through food and culture, a YouTube channel looks at what it means to be from the island. Eleni Philippou meets the woman behind it
Christmas is a time of family and tradition, of gathering around a large table of food and devouring the season’s delights. And there are plenty of them! Though many of them do not actually originate from Cyprus, they have become part of our Christmas tradition. But how many people have stopped to think about the roots of our adopted traditional food, local customs and truly celebrated the joy of their origins?
A Cypriot YouTube channel that launched in March of 2021 has embarked on a journey to discover Cypriot roots, get hands-on with what it means to be Cypriot – whatever that may be – and document some traditional ways before they disappear. Joy of Origins is a diary of Cypriot stories shared through food and crafts. It is Chara Nicolaou’s personal project that she hopes can be a point of reference for both Cypriots and foreigners.