Hard-to-find ethnic food coming this weekend

For the past 31 years, the parishioners at Overland Park’s Holy Trinity Orthodox Church have hosted an ethnic-food sale. And for much of those three three decades, the orthodox Christian church (which was located in the striking onion-domed building in Kansas City, Kansas, until the late 1990s) focused on the Russian fare of its founding families, but John Heny, chairman of the annual Ethnic Food & Pastry Festival, says that more recently, the items at the sale reflect the mixed cultural diversity of the parish.

“We’re very much a multiethnic parish now,” Heny says. “We have members from Ethiopia, Serbia, Greece, Romania and those of Irish, German, English and many other European backgrounds.”