As you know from my PM, Boufa, I got it from England. Greece has yet to discover these ... I'm contemplating importing!
Meanwhile, my beans have now been on ... wait a sec, let me check my watch ... for TEN hours! Finally they're done in terms of tenderness of the beans, but I want a bit less liquid so I've just taken off the top. We started them on 'high' for about an hour, then half of the day on 'med' then back up to high since after 5 or 6 of those hours they were still very much uncooked. I gather it takes awhile to get the hang of this?!
Kitchenelf, a "very, VERY wintery day" here in Greece can mean well below zero and heaps of snow (in Florina), but here in Athens usually it just means bitterly cold with a wind coming in off the sea. You know how damp air can be all that much more penetrating?
Yesterday wasn't the coldest day I've ever lived here really, it was just so unexpectedly cold for October. After a blissful 3.2 days of autumn weather after the *&%# endless, relentless, unceasing heat of summer, personally? I'm just not ready for frozen feet and cold noses!