Pomak Foodways

Community

The food of Bulgarian-speaking Muslim communities, most numerous in the Rhodopes: dairy and mountain cheese, potatoes, beans, maize, breads and pastries, meat, preserves, and the food of Ramadan, Eid and weddings. Pomak is not a synonym for Turkish, and Muslim is not one cuisine.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Blagoevgrad territory
Oblast Smolyan territory

Communities and languages

Pomak community documented

Languages: Bulgarian

What is recorded

Pomak foodways is recorded as the tradition of Bulgarian-speaking Muslim communities. Pomak is not equated with Turkish, and Muslim is not treated as a single cuisine. Held at community_reviewed status. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

part of Rhodope Foodways documented
related to Muslim Foodways in Bulgaria documented

Recipes

No recipes are filed under this cuisine yet.