National Gyro Day in USA
National Gyro Day in USA is held on September 1. This event in the first decade of the month September is annual.

The Gyro was first introduced to the American public by George Apostolou in 1965 at the Parkview Restaurant, Chicago, IL.
Gyro, a Greek dish of roasted meat served in a pita, usually with tomato, onion, and tzatziki, a cold, creamy sauce made from yogurt, cucumber, garlic, and various spices. Gyro meat—typically lamb, beef, pork, or chicken—is roasted on a vertical skewer and sliced off in thin, crispy shavings as it cooks. The word gyro comes from the Greek “turning” which refers to the meat that is slowly cooked on a turning vertical rotisserie.
Beginning in the Eastern Mediterranean, a vertical spit of stacked meat slices and cutting it off as it cooks was developed in the 19th century in Ottoman Bursa.
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