Idylls of Cuisine, #65
June 6, 2010
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Category: Greece
Of Herbs and Other Country Messes
May 11, 2010
When the sage comes to life again, after its long, lonely slumber in the freezing winter, I always just stop for a moment and marvel. How could this happen? Left outside the kitchen door, the sage bows before the relentless blasts of icy winds and heavy snow. Its leaves and branches shrivel to skeletal silhouettes, … More Of Herbs and Other Country Messes
Did Eggplants March with Alexander the Great?
April 7, 2009
No, eggplants probably didn’t march with the Greek conqueror Alexander the Great, although he certainly might have eaten some as he brushed up against what is now western India. The fact that most of the names for eggplant come not from ancient Greek or Latin, but rather from Sanskrit or Arabic, attest to the spread … More Did Eggplants March with Alexander the Great?
CYNTHIA D. BERTELSEN 
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