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Vegetables

Hot Peppers in the Greek Kitchen

Hot peppers have been a part of the culinary culture of Greece for about four hundred years. Until a generation or two ago, Central Macedonia was the center for pepper cultivation, specifically around the area of Aridea.

Okra, One of the Classic Summer Vegetables

Okra falls into that category of food -like eel and snails- that you either love or despise, mostly because of their slippery, mucous-like texture.

Greek Potatoes, Hard to Imagine a Greek Table without It

Potatoes in Greece had a comic, telling start. Legend has it that the New World crop arrived, during the tenure of Greece's first Prime Minister, Ioanis Kapodistrias, in the 1820s.

Garlic: Indispensable to Greek Cooking

One never quite thinks of garlic as having a season, but in Greece the plant's cycle is evident at market. In spring, right around the start of Lent, tender stalks of fresh garlic arrive at greengrocers' and farmers' markets.

Beans: Staples of the Greek Kitchen

Beans and pulses are among the traditional Greek foods. For eons, these simple, healthful ingredients have been staples of the kitchen, an easy, economical, nutritious way to feed body and soul alike.

Purslane in Salads

During the summer, when the heat bleaches the color out of the Greek countryside, a jade-green succulent that happens to be one of the Mediterranean's miracle foods, runs amok: purslane, antrakla or glistrida to the Greeks.

In Praise of the Simple Pea

One of the geniuses of the Greek cook is her ability to turn the simplest, the humblest, and the commonest ingredient into an entire meal. Case in point, the fresh green pea.

Onions: Raw or Cooked, They are Found in Countless Greek Dishes

Greek cooks use the onion more as a seasoning than as a vegetable in its own right. Few are the dishes where the onion shines first, although it melds into the backdrop of countless Greek dishes.

Spinach, Wonderful Baked or Stewed

Spinach is wonderful baked or stewed- witness the variety of dishes in our kitchen, such as spinach cooked with chick peas, or with cuttlefish, with lamb and avgolemono, with rice. Elsewhere, spinach appears as a filling for everything, from Bulgarian dumplings to Italian ravioli.

Cool as a Cucumber

While refreshing and stimulating to the appetite, the cucumber is about as close to neutrality as a vegetable can get in terms of flavor

Recipes

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