The name of the first common Greek quince variety is kydonion melon, which means the apple from Kydonia. Kydonia was the principal Minoan city in the west of Crete and quince may have been indigenous to it. The kydonion melon is mentioned in…
Raisins, currants, sultanas
And Rhodes (send us) raisins and figs, sweet like dreams. Ermippos 63, at Athenaeus, 27e. The black raisin was well known in antiquity. The most famous raisin of classical years was produced in Rhodes island, however the raisins of Chios…
The last stuffed vegetables of summer
Maria Iordanidou, Loxandra ‘Add a lot of onion in the yialantzi dolma, so it will be tasty, but also add mint, to make it easy to digest.’ Basically, most foods are suitably for stuffing. Bread, meat, innards, fish, oysters, eggs,…
See you in September
Tomato keftedes (Nikos & Maria Psilakis, The secret of good health. Olive oil. p.117-8) 3 medium – size ripe tomatoes seeded and finely chopped1 grated medium onion1 tsp salt½ tsp pepper1 tsp dried rubbed oregano1 tbsp parsley or mint, finely…
“Tomato is the poor man’s summer bread”
“Tomato is the poor man’s summer bread” (Cretan proverb) The wild, cherry- size tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) is a plant which was originated mainly in Ecuador and Peru, but it was cultivated in Mexico, where it was called “tomatl”. It is…