Food & drink

baklava

The layered nut-and-syrup pastry appears in 16th-century Ottoman as baklağı, later baklava; from the palace kitchens of Istanbul it spread with its name to the Arab world, Iran, the Caucasus and the Balkans, and English borrowed it around 1820. Its deeper origin is unknown.

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