LCBO Food & Drink Autumn 2019

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Global eggplant Eggplant is as versatile as the world we live in. Check out these far-flung takes on how to cook it up best.

By Amy Rosen | Photography by rob fiocca

It’s a divisive vegetable to be sure, but we encourage you to try eggplant again— for the first time. While the eggplant of your youth may have been bitter and seedy, most of those traits have happily been bred out of this once-maligned vegetable, especially in the smaller varieties featured in most of these recipes. So forget spongy, oily and bland. Herewith, a global take on eggplant, to newly inspire!

Tel Aviv-Style Sabich Sandwiches

Recipe on page 136

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FOOD & DRINK AUTUMN 2019