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Article: Stuffed vegetables fit for a sultan.(The country kitchen)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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Known to the Greeks as dolmath, the Turks dolma, the Persians dolmeh, and the Arabs mashi, stuffed vegetables have been a favored food in the Middle East and the Balkans for centuries. It is believed that their origin goes back to the ancient Middle East and Greece where stuffed leaves of fig, hazelnut or mulberry trees and a number of vegetables, became part of the daily meal.
However, the Turkish upper classes were the ones who refined these dishes and evolved them into the cuisine of sultans. The elaborate preparation needed to ready them for the pot made stuffed vegetables the specialty of the affluent. They became known as "the food of aristocrats" and were, ...
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