fava, it's a legume that is growing in santorini.ini, everything grows beautifully. the fava there have a particular flavor. so moving from the octopus and the fava, we have some grilled peppers of different colors. and then the greek spreads which is a very typical way of putting together a table that people can sit at. >> they are absolutely some of my favorite foods. i said when i sat down, my favorite cuisine might easily be greek foods. your backgrounds is fascinating because you came here at 19. you called it totally lost, you were a lost experience. how do you go from that to all of there? >> life. life is -- >> yeah. >> i came to actually new york in 1996 with a student visa to study at nyu. and i faced, you know, a very huge cultural shock. >> yeah. >> which for me at that time it was very difficult -- >> you got homesick. >> very much. >> big time. >> very much so. so i moved to maryland. my brother was living there, so it was a more comfortable situation to be. >> yeah. >> and then eventually i went to montreal in canada.