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What is the name of the fried cheese pie from the Cyclades made with local soft cheese and honey, distinctive for its spiral shape?

Answer: melitinia — Melitinia are small sweet cheese pies from the Cyclades, particularly Santorini, made with fresh mizithra cheese, eggs, sugar, and enveloped in thin dough, shaped into spirals or half-moons.

Melitinia are small sweet cheese pies from the Cyclades, particularly Santorini, made with fresh mizithra cheese, eggs, sugar, and enveloped in thin dough, shaped into spirals or half-moons.

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