Greek Salad
Tomato and cucumber tossed with feta cheese and olive oil.
History & cultural context
📝 This cultural/historical write-up is newly researched and pending manual review — treat it as a helpful draft rather than confirmed, final text.
Greek salad (horiatiki, "village salad") reflects the simple, produce-forward cooking of rural Greece, built from tomato, cucumber, onion, olives, and feta dressed in olive oil. Its modern restaurant-menu form is generally understood to have become widely popularized in the mid-20th century as Greek tourism grew, though the underlying combination of fresh vegetables, cheese, and olive oil draws on a much older Mediterranean tradition, so an exact single date of invention isn't documented.
General ingredients
A high-level look at what goes into Greek Salad — the exact order and combinations are the puzzle you solve in the game itself, so they're deliberately not listed here.