[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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