ABSTRACT
The emblem of the Byzantine Empire the same as the one found on the flag of the Greek Orthodox Church is a two-headed black eagle, with its two heads looking outwards in opposing directions. The Greek economic crisis is a depoliticised crisis, and more specifically a culturalised crisis, in the sense that what is a systemic phenomenon is reduced to the cultural characteristics of the Greek people. It is beyond the scope of the present chapter to chart the full historical development of this condition of hybridity, but one can trace its origins back to the emergence of the Byzantine Empire after the dissolution of the Roman Empire. It discusses this systematic attempt to educate the Greeks and bring about a change in the national selfhood, by focusing on recent transformation in the national culinary and dietary habits and by performing a reading of two very popular Greek movies that deal explicitly with the thematic of food and cooking.
