{"id":21176,"date":"2025-11-03T07:23:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=21176"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:23:56","slug":"galactic-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=21176","title":{"rendered":"Galactic Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the destinations on my \u201cFlavors of Little Levant in Bay Ridge\u201d ethnojunket is Bay Ridge Bakery at 7805 5th Avenue, a fixture in that Brooklyn neighborhood that has been creating first-class cakes, cookies, and pastries since 1972. They feature superb French, Italian, and American baked goods like those shown here…
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…but this post is about their exceptional galaktoboureko (\u03b3\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03ba\u03c4\u03bf\u03bc\u03c0\u03bf\u03cd\u03c1\u03b5\u03ba\u03bf), a Greek pastry featuring sweet semolina custard encased in phyllo dough. Its name literally means \u201cmilk pie\u201d and the English word \u201cgalaxy\u201d is derived from the Greek root: think Milky Way.<\/p>\n

The bakery is the creation of John Nikolopoulos, a pastry chef who hails from Greece \u2013 so you know you\u2019re getting the real deal. Head inside and walk straight to the back where traditional Greek pastries are hiding in plain sight and buy a piece (or more!) of their quintessentially definitive galaktoboureko \u2013 truly one of the best versions I\u2019ve ever tasted.<\/p>\n

And needless to say, we always stop by for a piece on my Little Levant ethnojunket!<\/a><\/p>\n

\u03ce\u03c0\u03b1!<\/em>
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\nStay safe, be well, and eat whatever it takes! \u2764
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Galaktoboureko. Its name literally means \u201cmilk pastry\u201d and our word \u201cgalaxy\u201d is derived from the Greek root: think Milky Way. Read on…. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-21176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shopping","category-sweets","tag-greek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21176"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21188,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176\/revisions\/21188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}