{"id":25100,"date":"2018-04-28T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T22:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25100"},"modified":"2018-04-28T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T22:11:37","slug":"eat-greek-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/eat-greek-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat Like a Greek Every Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cagrks.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those who have yet to fully embrace the Mediterranean diet, there&#8217;s an easy solution. Head for a Greek festival and sample some of the salads, pita breads and scrumptious dishes. If you decide to throw caution to the wind, order up a full meal with lamb or chicken entrees and definitely don&#8217;t skip dessert!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little piece of heaven right on the church grounds where you can sample exotic beverages such as Greece&#8217;s national drink, Ouzo (an anise-flavored aperitif,) dance, shop, take tours and hop on carnival rides. What you&#8217;ll notice most is that Greek parishes putting on these events have all hands on deck (including youth volunteers) and while they&#8217;re working their buns off, they maintain welcoming smiles and gracious attitudes.\u00a0We&#8217;ve never met a Greek festival we didn&#8217;t enjoy and always support these major fundraising events.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/food-festivals-greek.html\">CA Greek Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>May 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oakland<\/li>\n<li>Anaheim<\/li>\n<li>Northridge<\/li>\n<li>Novato<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>June 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>San Jose<\/li>\n<li>San Luis Obispo<\/li>\n<li>Downey<\/li>\n<li>San Diego<\/li>\n<li>Camarillo<\/li>\n<li>Irvine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>July 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Redondo Beach<\/li>\n<li>Santa Barbara<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>August 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Castro Valley<\/li>\n<li>Fresno<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fall Festivals<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Belmont<\/li>\n<li>Long Beach<\/li>\n<li>Monterey<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li>Stockton<\/li>\n<li>Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<li>Cardiff by the Sea<\/li>\n<li>Vallejo<\/li>\n<li>Pasadena<\/li>\n<li>San Juan Capistrano<\/li>\n<li>Concord<\/li>\n<li>Modesto<\/li>\n<li>Elk Grove<\/li>\n<li>Lancaster<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>Covina<\/li>\n<li>Temecula<\/li>\n<li>Bakersfield<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have yet to fully embrace the Mediterranean diet, there&#8217;s an easy solution. Head for a Greek festival and sample some of the salads, pita breads and scrumptious dishes. If you decide to throw caution to the wind, order up a full meal with lamb or chicken entrees and definitely don&#8217;t skip dessert! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25101,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25100\/revisions\/25101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}