
Visitors interested in seeing the church and learning more about Orthodoxy can make the short walk from the park at 12th between Trinity and Red River to the church on 11th, where tours will be available. This year, for the first time, the festival will be celebrated in Waterloo Park, having outgrown the church grounds. Elias Church is a blended community of diverse ethnic heritages (Lebanese, Greek, Ethiopian, Armenian, Russian, Arabic) and the Mediterranean Food Festival is a popular event that draws crowds not just from the church congregation and Austin but throughout the region.

As the congregation grew and diversified, the annual fundraising dinner became the Mediterranean Festival, selling delicious ethnic foods from booths on the church grounds.

When the basilica-style temple was almost completed in 1934, the ladies expanded the bake sale into an annual Lebanese dinner. As the building project progressed, church women met the funding challenge by baking and selling Lebanese breads and pastries to their neighbors. Elias would be a Pan-Orthodox Church, welcoming Orthodox worshippers of all nationalities.

Though the founding families were Lebanese, the small community determined from its infancy that St. In May of 1933, a group of Lebanese Orthodox families that had previously been ministered to by traveling priests joined together to purchase land and building materials for Austin's first Orthodox Church. The history of the festival is an integral part of the development of St. The variety of the menu is a direct result of the ethnic diversity of the congregation and the festival now attracts crowds from all over Central Texas. 11th St., 476-2314) have raised funds for the church by preparing and selling a banquet of dishes that represent the cuisines of their varied ethnic heritages. Nothing could be farther from the pancake suppers and fried chicken dinners of my memory. Elias Eastern Orthodox Church Mediterranean Food Festival. Perhaps that's why I'm drawn to events such as the annual St. If there was even a whiff of ethnic influence other than the occasional pan of King Ranch casserole, it did not register on my palate or in my memory. Posted on septemseptemby chappie.The menus at the Methodist Church socials of my West Texas childhood were as homogeneous as the congregation. Vegetable + vegetable + dairy and eggs (with the exception of pumpkin + onion + milk) or vegetable + dairy and eggs + dairy and eggs. There's a whopping 35 recipes in the game, and most of them you have to figure out by simply cooking random ingredients, but with this list here you don't need to do that. Eastward’s complete recipe guide for all 35 recipes! In eastward, we have a special set of food groups. Welcome To The Official Eastward Wiki.Ĭooking is the way for john and sam to keep a collection of gold hearts save with them.

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