Thursday, 14 February 2008

istanbul diary aryan



Istanbul Diary: Aryan

I drank a lot of Aryan when I was in Turkey. It is a salted yogurt

drink that tastes exactly like salted lassi. A cold glass of Aryan is

perfect on a hot summer day, especially if you're dehydrated from a

lot of alcohol consumption the previous night :)

Did you know that yogurt originated in Turkey? The nomadic tribes of

Eastern Europe and Western Asia were tinkering around with

defermentation and chanced upon this manna. The ancient Assyrian word

for yogurt, lebeny, meant "life." The word yogurt also comes to us

from the Turkish language. The root "yog" means roughly to condense.

I haven't been able to find a suitable answer for why this Turkish


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