Baklava
Kjetil Rå Hauge
k.r.hauge at ILOS.UIO.NO
Tue Nov 20 08:10:03 UTC 2007
Genevra Gerhart wrote:
> Over fifty years ago, my Russian landlady in Paris served me a dessert which
> she said was very popular and came from the eastern Mediterranean.
> Table discussion tonight was whether baklava or pakhlava was from Greece,
> Turkey, Azerbaidzhan, etc. None of my dictionaries was any help whatsoever.
> Help!
> Genevra Gerhart
According to Hasan Eren, Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü, Ankara 1999,
its etymology is not too clear, but it could be some kind of
contamination of _bakla_ 'broad bean' (from Arabic) and _oklava_
'rolling pin' and has spread from Turkish to South Slavonic, Romanian,
Armenian, Greek and Arabic.
You get the best baklava (my opinion, but I am sure Eren would agree) in
Gaziantep, where they make it with honey and pistachios instead of sugar
syrup and hazelnuts.
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