Israeli cuisine spicy or sweet-and-sour, with ingredients such as bell peppers, chili peppers, figs, onion, artichoke bottoms, Swiss chard, beet, dried fruits, tomato, vine leaves, potatoes, mallow, eggplants and zucchini squash, and stuffing such as meat and rice in Balkan style, bulgur in Middle Eastern fashion, or with ptitim, a type of Israeli pasta. The Ottoman Turks introduced stuffed vine leaves in the 16th century and vine leaves are commonly stuffed with a combination of meat and rice, although other fillings, such as lentils, have evolved among the various communities. Artichoke bottoms stuffed with meat are famous as one the grand dishes
Stuffed chine when it presents attractively contrasting stripes of pink and green. Food writer Jane Grigson gave a recipe in "The Observer" in March 1984. The poet Paul Verlaine, who in the mid-1870s spent a year as a schoolmaster just north of Boston, liked stuffed chine so much that he tried unsuccessfully to find it elsewhere in England. In 1936 the "Sunderland Daily Echo" reported that chine was a traditional dish served on Trinity Sunday in Old Clee, north-east Lincolnshire. Stuffed chine Stuffed chine is a traditional dish of salt pork filled with herbs, typically parsley, associated with the English county of