Well, as long as I'm at it, why not make Alice's version of the classic Greek Salad. In spite of the fact that I don't like raw tomatoes, I've eaten a yacht-sized load of Greek salads in the last few years. It all started when we were in Greece for a couple weeks not long ago. In the summer, in Greece, every restaurant serves endless quantities of Greek salad; and it's all delicious. Very simple. Tomatoes, cucumbers, olives and feta cheese with lots of herbs and vinegar & oil dressing. You can hide the taste of anything under plenty of olives and feta. Alice's version is a little more elaborate, adding thinly sliced red onion and red sweet pepper. It was good. I'd forgotten how much I like Greek salad, in spite of it being loaded with raw tomatoes. Of course, nearly anything tastes better on the plaza of a restaurant at the base of the Acropolis, in the evening, in the summer. Or on a sailboat at anchor along the Aegean, at noon, in the summer. Oh sigh. I'm so grateful that I've been there and have done that.
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