KOUZINA: An Alexander Payne Favorite

Okay, this one's going to start a lot of arguments because every Greek claims to make the best spanokopita and everyone says their recipe is the best and was handed down by my yia yia's yia yia yia's yia yia. It also happens to be a favorite of just about every Greek and a lot of people who aren't, once they bite into a good and taste that moist spinach-feta-phyllo dough concoction. That includes renowned Greek-American director, producer and screenwriter Alexander Payne from Omaha, Nebraska, noted for real adult movies such as Sideways, Election, About Schmidt the Descendants and the upcoming Nebraska for his home state. He was in Greece this summer and said he'd love to make a movie with Greek characters. Undoubtedly they'd be as interesting and quirky as all the others in his films, all gems. So here's a recipe to satisfy him and all those hungry people who'll come running to the kitchen when they smell it cooking.

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