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Saturday, June 27. 2015

Real Greek Salad

Simple and good, if you like raw vegetables.


Yes, Greeks do eat a lot of "Village Salad." It does call for Greek olive oil (often considered lousy oil except by the Greeks), which is somehow different from Italian even though the olives are the same.


Greeks, like the north africans, don't really do "extra virgin" or any of that fancy stuff.

Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 18:32 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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#1 Steve on 2014-04-25 21:05 (Reply)
Sounds good except for the feta cheese.
#2 feeblemind on 2014-04-25 23:32 (Reply)
That's because all of the oil used in Greece at least in the homes I've been in is extra virgin. And I beg to differ--r it's the best olive oil.
#3 linda s on 2014-04-26 20:21 (Reply)
I'm staring at at a 5 liter tin of Extra Virgin Greek Olive Oil on my kitchen worktop now!
#4 Clovis Sangrail on 2014-04-27 14:34 (Reply)
No doubt Greeks SELL 'extra virgin' olive oil - I suspect that Greek cooks worry less about the virginity of their olive oil than, say, their goats and really cute sheep. But that's just a guess.

Recipe looks good, will try it asap.
#5 Carl H on 2014-05-19 12:02 (Reply)
I like almost all kinds of olive oil. I enjoy trying types from different areas: Portugal, Lebanon, Spain, France, California
#6 peter71 on 2015-06-28 09:31 (Reply)
Waldbaums, the Long Island store, possibly the best grocery store I've ever been in. Some LI friends of mine took her dying father there as his last request. Drawn by the sampling tables and stations of exquisite samples; meat, cold cuts, bread, but especially Olive Oil. A wrap around shelf with probably twenty different brands and species of olive oil and a few balsamic vinegars, with fresh baked bread sticks on hand to dip with.
Heaven. Pity my former friends and I separated over politics.
#7 John the River (Link) on 2015-06-28 10:20 (Reply)

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