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Traditional foods and sweets

KARPATHOS (Island) DODEKANISSOS
  Foods: various kinds of bread and barley donuts which accompany the local salty cheese or the meriari (made from full cream milk), the small pastries, kouloumbotes olives, sesame, egg and thin “kouloures”- biscuits, makarounes, vegetable pies, drilla, mezithra ofto (goat’s meat stuffed with rice), pihti, kavroumas, sitaka and others.
  Sweets: xilikopites, baklava (made very differently from the usual baklava), sweet mezithra cheese pies, sweet sesame pies and sitakopita etc.
(Text: Manolis Makris)
This text is cited February 2004 from the Dodekanissos Union of Municipalities & Communities pamphlet.