The raw materials of the villages marked the delicious cooking of the locals, characterized by simplicity, while the need, a silent instigator, illustrates its taste range and the transformation of the simple into the important. The living conditions, the hard agricultural work, and their evolution justified the traditional taste, which has been preserved almost unchanged over time. Studying it today in depth, it surprises us with its character, intensity and association with survival, celebrations, faith...
Urban cooking is a distinct mosaic of beauty and originality with other characteristics and gravity.
"Wearing" a culture against the rigors of life, refugees left a mark. Their cooking, more technically complex, more adventurous, influenced the locals in their way. In the Serrai culinary tradition, however, the value lies in the deliciousness of the raw material, which slowly fades, in the attention to detail, which can guide someone to its exquisite revival, and in the final taste, with the recipient of hunger, unknown anymore...
Christos Mantidis studying the Serrai table reinforces the finding that food reflects the anxiety of all the people of a place and aims to define their table as a meeting point of joy and sorrow, as an unwritten regime of all times...
Dimitris Thanasoulas -
This researcher's pen, married to the cook's ladle, make this doctoral study a serious textbook that should not be missing from any home, whether one cooks or not. Well done!!!!