thefroth.com

Apple salad with beet

Thursday, September 28, 2006

"The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious." Tom Robbins Why is it that when people [...]

Haloumi and grape salad

Saturday, August 5, 2006

5 Comments

It is boiling hot in Athens. I cannot bear to be in the kitchen, at least not too far from the fridge where it is cool. So, no cooking. We have to make do with salads and fruit and cheese. Really, I have never asked you: Do you like mixing fruit and vegetables? Or are [...]

Just eat it, don’t make me repeat it

Wednesday, July 5, 2006

2 Comments

I can live on salads, fruit and juices for the whole duration of summer. In Greece, that’s about 5 months. Sometimes, I consider myself lucky that as a vegetarian, I live in a Mediterranean country where there are lots of vegetables and fruit, but when I am in a bad mood, I just miss the [...]