Greek Mountain Oregano

If you have only ever used supermarket dried oregano — the grey-green powder in a small glass jar, mildly fragrant, fading fast — you have not yet experienced oregano. Greek mountain oregano (Origanum vulgare hirtum) is a different ingredient entirely: wild-grown at altitude on the hillsides of the Peloponnese, Crete, and the Aegean islands,…If you have only ever used supermarket dried oregano — the grey-green powder in a small glass jar, mildly fragrant, fading fast — you have not yet experienced oregano. Greek mountain oregano (Origanum vulgare hirtum) is a different ingredient entirely: wild-grown at altitude on the hillsides of the Peloponnese, Crete, and the Aegean islands, it develops an intensity of essential oils that cultivated varieties cannot replicate.The difference is visceral. Open a bag of our Greek mountain oregano and the scent hits you immediately — resinous, warm, slightly camphorous, intensely aromatic in a way that makes the supermarket equivalent seem like a shadow. In cooking, a pinch of good…Read more