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Gagauz Foodways

Gagauz aลŸฤฑ

Ethnolinguistic

The food of the Gagauz โ€” a Turkic-speaking, Orthodox Christian people settled in the southern steppe from the early 19th century, with an autonomous territorial unit centred on Comrat. โš  NOT A VARIANT OF MOLDOVAN COOKING. Sheep and lamb, dairy, wheat and maize, layered and filled pastries, peppers and tomatoes, and a wine tradition of its own. Its relationships run to Bulgarian, Turkish, Balkan and Black Sea foodways as much as to Moldovan.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Gagauz community documented

Languages: Gagauz

What is recorded

  • Gagauz foodways are recorded as a distinct ethnolinguistic system, not as a regional variant of Moldovan cooking. The Gagauz are a Turkic-speaking Orthodox Christian people with an autonomous territorial unit, and their culinary relationships run to Turkish, Bulgarian, Balkan and Black Sea traditions as well as to Moldovan. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Bulgarian Foodways documented

    Settled together in the same colonisation and sharing the banitsa/bรถrek pastry family.

  • related to Moldovan Foodways documented

    Neighbours and co-citizens for two centuries, with heavy mutual borrowing โ€” and not a subset.

  • related to Turkish Foodways documented

    Gagauz is a Turkic language and the pastry, dairy and lamb traditions run straight into Anatolian and Balkan Turkish practice.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

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