bew10

I've seen a few articles on the web that say you need to ask for local tomatoes when eating out in Santorini - is that true? Will restaurants serve you imported tomatoes unless you specifically ask for local?

I'm a vegetarian, so I am really looking forward to all the local agricultural products (especially the wines, white eggplant, fava beans and tomatoes). I'll be there in mid-May, is that too early for the cherry tomatoes?

brotherleelove2004

Unfortunately mid-May is probably too early for most local produce to be ripe. Anything fresh you find is likely be from off-island.

bew10

Oh well. I'll just concentrate on the wines, then...

jamikins

Can't go wrong with wine!!

amer_can

I hear you!!!

brotherleelove2004

A friend who lives there just wrote and told me that the Santorini tomatoes are ready the first week of June.

Heimdall

You won't be disappointed with the vegetables in Greece, even though you are a little early for the Santorini tomato. Even in May, the ordinary tomatoes I've eaten in Greece are much tastier than the supermarket variety back home.

grrr

bew10: I'm a vegetarian.

jamikins: Can't go wrong with wine.

Wine is sometimes made with animal products...

brotherleelove2004

What products are those?

grrr

Animal products used as finings, e.g. gelatin, egg albumen, isinglass from fish bladders, casein from milk, rarely ox blood.

brotherleelove2004

thx

amer_can

Does that keep you from enjouying wine..Poor grr if it does!!!