To appreciate eggplant one really must visit Turkey. The average housewife has at least 100 ways to make eggplant. Many of those recipes totally disguise the vegetable.

I also believe that an eggplant purchased in a super market is completely unrelated to an eggplant plucked from the field or purchased from a fresh food stall in Istanbul.

The final delight of this vegetable is the exotic label aubergine.