The greens cooked with bacon are almost sweet, the flank steak tender from its marjoram-scented marinade.
Think sausage and peppers; lettuce, peas and mint; cooked shredded brisket with its juice, even with ketchup; greens cooked with loads of garlic and oil.
The eggs Benedict could pass for biscuits and gravy; the clam chowder is as texturally homogeneous as a bisque; the dandelion greens cooked with applesauce wind up tasting like pie.
Their meals reflect this diversity: Filipino greens, cooked in sweetened soy sauce, incomprehensible Danish cold cuts.A mid-19th-century crewman described his quarters thus: "Black, and slimy with filth, very small and hot as an oven.
Mustard greens cooked to a mash with fennel leaves and mustard seeds — sarson ka saag, a staple in north India — is fine meatless eating, and it has a nice plate mate in roti made with corn flour.
What she did favour were highly flavoured seasonal Italian dishes like Roman puntarelle with salsa acciughe, a bitter vegetable served with an ancient anchovy sauce, or scarola, bitter greens cooked with garlic, chilli, black olives and anchovies.
All of these writers would have been referring to greens cooked the old-fashioned way and served with the classic accompaniments of pepper and cornbread, which is useful for dipping into the much-prized pot liquor.
Cut the pork into bite-sized chunks and serve at once, just as it is, or with plain rice, perhaps some greens cooked in ginger and garlic, and some chilli sauce for dipping.
The Nasi Babi Guling special — served with a fiery red sauce over local greens, cooked jackfruit and coconut-infused rice — is 25,000 rupiah (about $2.70 at 9,241 rupiah to the dollar).
