Thank you WHL and Max, for that.

My neighbor told me this went way back in time , when food was scarce, before the fiftys...Klefto means I steal..so I think Kleftiko means stolenPaphosAL wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2017 6:38 pm The absence of smoke from the kleftiko oven also concealed the location of the bandits or freedom fighters cooking it, up in them thar hills...
Making it nigh on impossible for the Cypriot authorities and/or the British Army to pinpoint them. I never realized the lambs were actually stolen, though.. I'm guessing that during the EOKA period, local farmers were happy to see a few lambs go missing, in order to help feed the brave young men living rough, fighting to throw off the shackles of British rule.
Is HIDDEN a better translation of 'kleftiko' rather than STOLEN, I wonder?
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