These braised mushrooms with wrinkled olives and orange take their cue from other traditional Greek recipes that call either for seafood, such as squid or octopus, or pork, cooked with oranges and olives. But there is a huge difference. Mushrooms are a kind of delicious functional food – a super food -- and they are gaining in reputation as a great replacement for red meat and a salve against Alzheimer’s. Indeed, research shows that mushroom consumption a few times a week has a beneficial effect on slowing the progress of Alzheimer’s Disease. Mushrooms are an important component of the Greek diet. The caps are the healthiest and most beneficial part of the mushroom – and also the meatiest. You will be surprised, too, at how delicious a cooked orange, peel and all, can be! As for the olives, I like the mild flavored wrinkled black Greek throumbes, with their oily, pleasantly “leathery” texture.