Tripe

Today, the church commemorates St. Venerable Paraskeva of Epivatska, known in Bulgaria as Petka Bulgarska or Petka the Bulgarian. The name day is celebrated by individuals named Paraskeva, Petko, Pencho, Petkan, Peño, Penko, Petkana, and Keva.

These five iconic eateries have resisted the passage of time and firmly established themselves in Athens and Thessaloniki's culinary scenes. They specialize in dishes associated with warmth and comfort, from the nutritious - yet challenging for some - tripe soup and soothing chicken soup to the delicate yet hearty goat stew.

Call me the useful idiot of the consumer society, but once, just once a year, I wanted to see politics take a backseat to love. On Feb.