Chris Pirillo: Is your mouth watering? Might be after I read the top five Turkish food list submitted by a community member and it's kind of a one in an ongoing series of -- talking about top dishes from around the world and specifically reaching out to people who subscribed to YouTube channel, who comment my blog, who come in and stop by the chat room at live.pirillo.com to watch live feed. It's just interesting. To learn about what people eat and honestly I've been reading a few of the list and we all kind of eat the same thing. It's just prepared a little differently. I mean there are certain exceptions to the rules but food if food and good food is good food. I don't care where it came from, it is tasty, it's tasty. So apparently this particular Naomi was about ready to send a Canadian food list but someone else beat him with punch. Since before I must talk about little history, bare with me for a moment.
The Ottoman empire, biggest Turkish empire of the time ruled for a couple of 100 years in North Africa all the way to the borders of the Austria kingdom following the Mediterranean coast in the East direction. During those times Turkish food has enormously influenced the menus of the countries to the Ottoman's control. It is absolutely impossible that a person has never eater Turkish food in the life because of this simple fact. The Turkish menu is so enormous that every time I visit Turkey I discover new dishes. Therefore, the following six plates are my personal favorites.
Dolma, aah! I love Dolma. This is probably the most famous dish in the Turkish menu. There are several different types of Dolma. My favorite is the pepper and leaf. It consists of rice and ground beef, rolled up in vineyard leaves and stuffed into several peppers. Okay this one is going to be a Turk in a half year.
Hünkâr Beĝendi, this is a delicious side dish that contains a mixture of butter, milk, eggplant and cheese. My mouth is watering up just writing about it. That sound good, I love eggplant, cheese, milk, I could probably do without but not with an other thing.
Sish kebabs or Sish taouks, now this dish I’m sure everyone has heard of, sish kebabs. It is four or five pieces of meat or chicken barbecued on a single stick. Several dishes are a spin off from this one including Shwoermah and Sultani.
Next one is Hirsiz Kebab, also known as (thief’s kebab), as in a thief, as he writes it, this dish is more of a local specialty in Southwest Turkey. A big ceramic pot is heated by surrounding it with hot dirt and burning coal. The pot is then opened, and used like an oven to cook potatoes and sheep or goat meat. If you ever had a chance to eat this dish, I guarantee that you will love it. Well, I do like meat of just about any type. So I would give it a shot.
Doner, Doner is basically pita bread filled with meat or chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, etc. But most of you know Doner as Sish Taouk sandwich, renamed by the Lebanese or Souvlaki, renamed by the Greeks.
Baklava, Baklava has been the most influential Turkish food across the Ottoman empire, from Greece to the Arabic countries it is everywhere. Nothing tastes better than original Turkish Baklava made of aşki (the layers of the Baklava), nuts, and delicious syrup.
I would also like to mention that Mandi and Al-Kabsa from the Saudi cuisine list are also Turkish plates. If it's Egyptian, Lebanese, Greek, or any other country within the Ottoman empire or the once Ottoman empire, please keep in mind that this is basically Turkish food. Bottom line, we're all human beings, those of us who write these lists are also geeks, we eat and we love food. Some of my favorite food is specifically found in Mediterranean restaurants here in the US. I love Baba Ghanoush, I can eat Baba Ghanoush, I can bathe in Baba Ghanoush. You probably want to hang out with me but I would still like to do it, maybe before I'm done with this life I will have the bathe in Baba Ghanoush. I won't eat it, never mind I'm just going to stop now.
Now if you live in a country or the world that we've covered but not specifically your local cuisine and your -- someone who loves technology who follows me wherever I happen to go, feel free to submit your list of your favorite foods, the specialties in that region. They're certainly going to vary, what we eat here on this side of America is really no different than the junk that they eat on the other side of America. Oh god, I wish I didn't have to bring that up. I mean, I know there is American cuisine but honestly -- as American as a guest if I were to name an American cuisine you would be at the Iowa state fair, a Mark & Gary Chop. I could probably bathe in those but it would hurt. They are good, they are very good, just can't stay in the weather in Iowa specially that time of the year.
Anyways, my email address is chris@pirillo.com and you're often to swing by the chat room, we're typically talking tech, sometimes we're talking about geeks, not very frequently about Greeks, maybe Greek geek, are you a Greek geek? So say hello or whatever hello is in Greek. There are so many ways of saying welcome and hello and -- that's all I'm trying to do, just reach out and expand our knowledge of each other and what we eat, what we grow up with, what we eat now, what we love, and food is certainly something that I love, I love, I love the food. Well, anyway we're chatting right now and we're waiting for you, so what you're waiting for, we're at live.pirillo.com. See you later.
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