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
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"