Shish k"ofte

[Anne Lambert]

Fortune cookies are an American invention? Can you elucidate?

Rudolph C Troike wrote:

> With thanks to Alan and one of my Turcophile colleagues (who says d"oner
> kebap is better than gyros) for correcting my goof -- d"oner kebap is
> indeed slices of lamb put on a vertical spit and roasted, then sliced off
> the outside as it cooks. Ground meat formed in balls and cooked like shish
> kebap is called shish k"ofte in Turkish.
>         I wonder, from the testimony of various contributors, how recent
> gyros may be in Greece itself. I have long wondered whether pizza, like
> fortune cookies, might be an American invention. On my first visit to
> southern Italy in 1962, I couldn't find it, and on a later visit to
> northern Italy in 1973, the only place I found pizza was at a tourist
> restaurant, where it was cooked with a very thick, hard crust, and had a
> raw egg added on top after cooking.
>
> Rudy