“…Dimitris Tsarouhas, the owner of a restaurant in the Greek city of Thessaloniki that specializes in “patsa” is striving to register the soup with UNESCO as a unique and traditional dish of Greece that harks back to the time of Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey.”
That has prompted a new dispute with age-old rival Turkey, which also claims the soup as its own. Greeks and Turks have been feuding over everything culinary from coffee, stuffed grape leaves and even the famous baklava — the legacy of life under centuries of Ottoman rule.
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A broth coveted by Penelope’s suitors
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Tsarouhas notes that the recipe for patsa is mentioned in “The Odyssey,” specifically the feast that Odysseus’ wife Penelope prepared for suitors on the day that her husband came back from his decadelong journey…”