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Metroactive Movies | 'A Touch of Spice'

"The Mister of Spices

A man eats the bitter dolmas of exile in 'A Touch of Spice,' a Greek story that combines food-porn and pithy sayings

By Richard von Busack

WHY DID Constantinople get the works? The musical question posed by They Might Be Giants isn't directly solved by the Greek import A Touch of Spice. Clearly, the wrong answer is 'It's nobody's business but the Turks'' when we see how Turkish nationalism is unleashed on a minority of Constantinople Greeks—a group forced into exile from the city they loved so much."

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