Greek cuisine gyro, moussaka, dolmades, yuvarlakia and keftethes with the neighboring countries. To an even greater extent it is influenced by Italian cuisine and cuisines from other neighboring south European countries, and thus, especially in southern regions and the islands it includes several kinds of pasta, like hyllopites, gogkes and tziolia. Greek cuisine has a culinary tradition of some 4,000 years and is a part of the history and the culture of Greece. Its flavors change with the season and its geography. Greek cookery, historically a forerunner of Western cuisine, spread its culinary influence, via ancient Rome, throughout Europe and beyond. It
Chinese cabbage International Space Station a crop of Chinese cabbage from a plant growth device included an allotment for crew consumption, while the rest was saved for scientific study. There are two distinctly different groups of "Brassica rapa" used as leaf vegetables in China, and a wide range of cultivars within these two groups. The binomial name "B. campestris" is also used. This group is the more common of the two, especially outside Asia; names such as napa cabbage, "dà báicài" (Chinese: 大白菜, lit. "large white vegetable"); "Baguio petsay" or "petsay wombok" (Tagalog); "Chinese white cabbage"; "wong a pak" (Hokkien, Fujianese); "baechu"