Posts Tagged ‘gyro cones’

Yamas Makes Gyros the Right Way: Without the Compressed Meat Cones from Chicago

Chance are, if you bought a gyro lately, you bit into compressed meat processed in some cold, mechanized Chicago plant and then trucked frozen to your friendly Greek sandwich shop just around the corner. You see, producing gyro cones is big business, which tends to belie the breezy, Mediterranean seaside, hand-crafted image of your standard [...]

Who’s the Henry Ford of the Gyro? A Jewish Ex-Marine Named Garlic.

We've seen them hundreds of times, these cylinders of compressed meat spinning slowing in front of a burning-red heating element. They're fixtures at Greek restaurants from here to Anchorage, but who exactly invented these ubiquitous cones of gyro meat? David Segal, a former Postie who cut his teeth as a City Paper freelancer years ago, [...]