Döner Foodways

Specialised

Vertical roasting: meat stacked and seasoned, the fire beside rather than beneath it, slicing to order. Nineteenth-century Anatolian in origin, and then re-made in Europe as a street food in its own right.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Türkiye territory

What is recorded

Vertical-spit döner is documented in nineteenth-century Ottoman Anatolia. The bread-and-salad döner sandwich now sold across Europe was assembled by Turkish migrants in 1970s Berlin. Both are recorded, and neither is collapsed into the other. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

part of Turkish Kebab Foodways documented
related to Turkish-German Foodways documented
The döner sandwich as sold across Europe was assembled in Berlin in the 1970s, not in Anatolia.

Recipes

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