Authentic Greek Fare Now Part of Eastport's Waterfront Culinary Options

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EASTPORT, Maine -- It may be 1,300 miles from Maine to Chicago's iconic Greektown and just short of 5,000 miles to Athens, Greece, but fans of authentic Greek cuisine need not travel any farther than the Washington County community of Eastport.

Tyra Mihalis Baker is a sixth-generation Greek restaurateur who, with the help of her three children, serves up an array of traditional Greek dishes at The Liberty Cafe at 64 Water St., using recipes she learned as a child from her grandmother at the family- owned Liberty Cafe in Logansport, Indiana. Her family has operated restaurants and bakeries in both Greece and the United States for more than 100 years, a tradition that her grandfather, Menos Mihalis, brought to the Midwest after serving as a cook in France during World War I.

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Authentic Greek Fare Now Part of Eastport's Waterfront Culinary Options

"He came to the U.S. after the war, and, like a lot of Greeks, opened up a restaurant, The Liberty Cafe," Baker says. "In 1923 or '24 he sent for my grandmother and his grandmother, and...

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