[Sca-cooks] Period Baklava
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
Thu Apr 5 11:42:47 PDT 2007
> I suppose when we look at the antecedents for phyllo, it's easy to
> suppose that the Turks are a likely bridge between Middle Eastern
> varak and Greek phyllo. Do we have any reason to believe the Greeks
> were eating a phyllo-like pastry before, roughly, 1453? Is it an
> early example of a marketing campaign altering a national cuisine?
Let's think about the Turks for a minute-- who else did they conquer?
Hungary, of course. Isn't hungarian tart in the period corpus
differentiated by its layeredness?
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