Like a Woody Allen film, baklava is multilayered and a welcome addition to extended jury deliberations. Bite into a multifaceted treat with today's Groupon: for $12, you get a 1-pound box of gourmet baklava from Yiayia Maria's Kitchen (a $28.05 value, including shipping). Groupon customers can also receive $10 off the purchase of additional items.
Named for the matriarch of the Nicolopoulos family, whose culinary gifts inspired her grandchildren to open their pastry shop, Yiayia Maria's Kitchen whips up dulcet Greek desserts using all-natural ingredients and generations-old recipes. To craft rectangles of baklava, pastry architects scrupulously hand-assemble 30 layers of paper-thin organic phyllo dough, keeping careful eyes out for gusts of wind as they spread a butter-and-nut mixture between each tier. Sweet honey soaks through the pastry structure, seeping into each phyllo wall before the family's signature clove is placed on each piece. Free-roaming, cage-free hens that are unpolluted by antibiotics, pesticides, and growth hormones produce the eggs used in Yiayia Maria's baklava.
An additional package-handling charge of $2.85 is not included in today’s Groupon.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Writing an Urban Legend
Everyone secretly wants to believe in scary stories that might be true. Indulge your friends' gullibility with these tips to crafting the perfect urban legend:
• Make sure the story takes place somewhere nearby, on a similar night—ideally exactly 100 years ago to the night. Or on the devil’s birthday.
• Always include an animal that turns out to be a different animal or an animal where one does not belong—like a dog that is actually a rat, or an alligator in the bathroom of the Museum of Alligator Safety.
• Tweak the details—it's only a few letters’ difference to change "gardener" to "murderer," and only a small white lie to change "was valued by the community" to "possessed double hook hands and a thirst for marrow."
• Always carry "proof"—this can be a monster's tooth carved from soap, a faded newspaper article created in Photoshop, or a scrap of the victim's clothing that is actually just a scrap of clothing you ripped off a terrified hiker you chased through the woods.
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