When I was in college ( in the very early 70’s), Pita sandwiches were all the rage on campus. In fact there — if memory serves me — a number of Pita sandwich stands around the university. I never had many Pita sandwiches as they were always less filling than my usual fare and disappointing. In any event , Pita doesn’t seem a very popular bread nowadays, and I had to travel to a number of grocery stores to find Pita bread, but it was a bit different than I remembered.
The History of Pita is — like most foods — very interesting, “the word pita has a mixed ancestry: from the Modern Hebrew pittāh, borrowed from the Judaeo-Spanish pita, borrowed in turn from modern Greek πίτα” ( Wikipedia).
Back to the ‘diet’ sandwich. The Pita bread is sliced in two and each half filled with dietetic and portion controled yummy things. The big caloric items were: the Pita Bread ( 100 calories) and 2 ounces of chicken breast ( 65 calories)… so as a lunch it works great and stuffing it with diced tomato (right) or salsa (left) and an assortment of sprouts adds very little to the calories… but makes the entire meal relatively filling.
Sometimes, we all need to diet, but we can keep things tasty!
Roger
PS: I have purchased some Indian Bhut Jolokia ( the world’s hottest pepper) and a plant to grow more. The name is funny enough, unless the joke is on those who try it.
