Fwd: "Greek salad"?

[Robert S. Wachal]

During the year I spent in Greece, mostly in Athens, I must have eaten 250
horiatikisalatas and never encountered green peppers.

Bob Wachal

At 03:58 AM 2/24/01 EST, you wrote:
>   I just received an order for "Greek Salad."
>   From John Ayto's A GOURMET'S GUIDE: FOOD & DRINK FROM A TO Z:
>
>   _Greek Salad_
>Greek salad consists of tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, and feta cheese,
often enlivened with an assortment of herbs.  Its Greek name is
_khoriattikisalata_, which means literally "country-Attic-salad" (Attica is
the area around Athens).
>(No date because Ayto realized there's no OED entry--ed.)
>
>   See the recent ADS-L archives for my antedate of "fetta cheese."
>   From THE GREEK COOKBOOK (Crown Publishers, 1967) by Sophia Skoura, pg. 16:
>
>_COUNTRY SALAD_   SALATA HORIATIKI
>10-12 small plum tomatoes
>2-3 cucumbers
>2 small onions
>1 green pepper
>1/2 pound feta cheese (more or less to taste)
>salt and pepper to taste
>olives
>   Clean and cut the tomatoes into bite-sized pieces.  Cut the cucumbers.
Mince the onions and peppers.  Cut up the feta cheese.  Place all these in
a bowl, add olives.  Season.  Toss well.  Serve with oil-and-vinegar.
Serves 6 to 8.
>
>May 1958, GOURMET magazine recipe index:
>   _Miscellaneous_
>(...)
>Salad, Pappas' Greek...66
>
>March 1964, GOURMET magazine recipe index:
>   _Salads_
>(...)
>Greek Easter Salad...50
>
>November 1968, GOURMET magazine recipe index:
>   _Vegetables and Salads_
>(...)
>Greek Salad...112
>
>May 1971, GOURMET magazine recipe index:
>   _Vegetables and Salads_
>(...)
>Greek Salad...70
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>From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com>
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>Subject: "Greek salad"?
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>Barry,
>
>Got anything on this? Not in Mariani, you don't seem to have posted
>anything.
>
>I'd still be interested in "Muffalletta", if anything turns up, but
>"Greek salad" is a little more pressing, timewise.
>
>Thanks. Hope you're well.
>
>JTS
>