If you can resist eating all of them while making them, you could prepare the patties a day or two in advance to take on a summer picnic or barbecue.
On the drive from the airport to where I was staying with friends, Athens felt a lot like Mashhad in Iran, the city of my mother, where I went to school. In the markets of Athens, however, I felt I was back in Tehran, in the Tajrish bazaar, going back home after a long day. The cafes reminded me of Istanbul, and the majestic ancient ruins — Western civilisation’s foundation stones — of Rome.
More than anywhere else perhaps,…