ARTICLES — τραχανάς

  Comfort food or pleasure food. No matter how you say it, what is certain is that we are talking about traditional dishes of each country, which speak directly to the heart of its inhabitants.  The great thing about comfort food is that it is always there for us and never lets us down. The brain responds to happiness and stress relief by continuing to crave "comfort" foods. To define it, we can say that it exists to cheer us up, as it acts as a booster.  When we eat, we receive positive reinforcement – ​​on the one hand we...

Trahana is a pasta made from flour and milk and has a granular and irregular shape. The grains are about 2-3 millimeters in diameter.  Hill and Briar agree that trachana is related to the Greek word trakton. Dolby (1996) links it to the Greek tragos/traganos, described (and condemned) in Galen's Geoponika 3.8  Trahana is made by mixing flour, yogurt and sour milk, and optionally cooked vegetables, salt, semolina, spices (mainly tarhana herb), allowing the mixture to ferment, dry and usually result in grinding and sifting. Fermentation produces lactic acid and other compounds giving Trahana its characteristic sour taste and good...