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Turkish-German Foodways

Diaspora

Germany’s largest immigrant food culture and a cuisine in its own right: the salad-and-sauce döner that was assembled in Berlin rather than Anatolia, bakeries, lahmacun and pide, greengrocers and supermarkets, breakfast cafés and sweets. Not identical to food in Turkey.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Turkish German community documented
  • Turkish-German community documented

Languages: Turkish

What is recorded

  • Döner as sold in Germany developed there from the 1970s onward within Turkish migrant communities. Competing accounts of who first sold it are recorded as competing accounts. disputed

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • originates from German Foodways possible

    A food culture formed in Germany by Turkish migration; it belongs to neither national cuisine alone.

  • originates from Turkish Foodways documented

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • influenced by German Foodways documented
  • related to Döner Foodways documented

    The döner sandwich as sold across Europe was assembled in Berlin in the 1970s, not in Anatolia.

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