National Delicacies

[Marius_Ursus]

Tom ever relaible. You also proved true the chinese proverb about "image worths 1000 words".
We call them BAMIA(one) BAMIES (plural) in Greece. No 1 recipy is chicken with them boiled in olive-oil and tomato sauce. Fresh are magnificent but saddly they latelly appear mostly frozen in the supermarkets. :evil:
Thanks for teaching me anew word.
Every "local-kitchen" was developed in a certain locality with the materials and conditions of this locality. You must have more fats in the north fewer in the south. More aromatic plants were in the south, thats why recipes looked "exotic". If you visit a locality different to yours perhaps its good to follow-if you can-local eating habbits.
People are simply lazy sods who take convenience over best interest.
Its not the recipy´s fault. I even catch my self wanting to dodge the Gym but I force myself to go.

This is one of the bestof topic threads so far. Can we voted the best off topic thread? Admins? :wink:
Kind regards

I didn't know okra grew anywhere other than in the southern part of the US! That's very interesting. Living up here in NY, I, too, have to buy frozen okra. When I lived in California and in Texas, I could get it fresh. I even could get it grom local farmers for twenty cents for a pound of it.

When I travel, I eat the local food and love it. The "Chinese" food in China (Funny thing...they just call it "food". :wink: ) is far better than the "Americanized" versions they sell here. I want to travel through Vietnam and Thailand and try the foods the way they're prepared "at home".

I agree with you completely that you have to blame the people and not the food. A calorie is a calorie, and if you eat too many of them, you're going to get fat. Hard work pays off in that area, and I can relate to what you wrote about pushing yourself to exercise. Just last night I didn't want to work out. I was feeling pretty lazy, but I did it anyway. I ended up feeling much better for it.

Have you been to the US, Stefanos? I just wonder how Greek food here compares to the stuff in your homes and local restaurants.