So I'm Turkish and I used to eat all these dishes everyday (including "the ruler liked"). After I moved to anither country I thought I could cook these myself, since my mom made it look so easy. Man I was wrong.
It takes some practice. I remember my first manti..It was disgusting and how many times a had to throw my pilav in the garbage cause it was uncooked or sticky.
i getchu bro :( im Mexican living in the Middle East (our food is our culture) and i cant cook my favorite foods, specially cuz there are no ingredients in here for that :(
Australian here but I was fortunate to have become friends with three Turkish couples who had moved out here. Being invited to their homes for dinner was an absolute treat. The ladies did most of the preparations but the husband would cook the kebabs on a barbeque. Freshly cooked home made Baclava is to die for. They were lovely people and funny and very hospitable so between their great company and their outstanding food, it was a night to look forward to. Their cuisine is overall healthy but amazingly tasty. Can't wait to visit Turkey myself, especially after watching all episodes of Ertugrul twice.
Omg i hope you visit all the palaces in İstanbul to see how fancy those sultans lived! 🤩 And if you have an interest about Ottomans, you should visit "Bursa" of Turkey this city was the capital of Ottoman Empire for years
" Freshly cooked home made Baclava is to die for." YEEEESSSSS. I work with a lot of... not white people (not sure their exact ethnicity, I think a few are egyption) and ONE time one of them brought HOMEmade BACLAVA, which I already love, but is very hard to find, and I LOST my shit. I literally dropped what I was doing to grab a piece. SO good.
Sultan did not consider coffee a indecent drink. He didn't like people gathering in coffee houses as when they did, they spoke of politics. He saw it as a threat. That was the reason to coffee and tobacco ban.
Not all Sultans but more specifically Murad IV, he was a very hard-working and buff guy who hated acts of laziness. After his young death, coffee consumption was common once again.
Sherbet is actually Persian, which became famous among the Turks (Central Asian tribes), who conquered Byzantine Empire renamed it Turkey after their identity (Turks) and introduced Sherbet there. It is NOT Turkish
The original one is made with rose water. Makes it so much lighter. Still a very common drink for post partum moms and also served to people who come and visit newborn and new mom ✨🤗
Fun fact: Swedish meatballs aren’t Swedish. When the king of Sweden escaped to the Ottoman Empire he got the recipe for kofte and brought it back to Sweden.
As a Turkish girl who visited Stockholm last year, I tried their meatballs because my roommate said that they were special and so delicious. So I ordered them in Gamla Stan and it tastes exactly like our meatballs. I had no idea that it was our recipe LOL did I regret that I paid 50 euro for a plate of meatballs and 2 glass of hot wine? Hell no, I ate them deliciously. 🤣🤣 but I could have cooked lots of meatballs that could feed me for at least a month with that 50 euro. 🤣🤣
@@Euzuner41 aslında bir tabak köfte 15 euroydu, yanında içtiklerim biraz fazla tuttu. 10 euro da servis ücreti aldılar, bilemiyorum ne kadar doğru. Onun hesabını yapamadım o anda.
+Weird History I didnt expect flaws from you guys, but I see now. Chai is not from Chinese, but from Indian languages. Chinese call tea for "Cha" and not "Chai"
Turkish historical content? You mean only Ottoman dynasty period ? Or history of whole region like Schumer,Persian,Parthian,Arabic,Seljuk,Byzantine heritage
I am an Indian Bengali.... We eat dolma, Sarma, pilaf, little different version of borek, sherbat, different version of sultan's delight, ayran,.... I am so amazed to know that the food we love to have nowadays have traces of ottoman food...
The oldest known mention of the Pilaw technique can be found in Arabic books from the 13th century. Century, written in Baghdad and Syria. It may also be a linguistic takeover from India. However, the cooking technique for Pilaw was only introduced in India by Muslims.
We eat most of this in Serbia , i dont care who invented it, i love to eat it. We and the Turks share a lot because of their centuries of influence on our people.
@@phoenixgrove yeah same here in Lebanon we eat all of these stuff as well and we even have Turkish words in our dialect because of the colonization of the ottoman
Sadly I went to the wrong place at the wrong season when I visited Turkey with a tour group. I knew it was tasty and looked delicious but we only got fed bland fish and chips.
Jetzt hast du mich an die Zeit errinert... Schön Abends ein Bierchen schlürfen bei der Ecke zum Meer wo dies eine alte Dings steht 🌙🙈 ist schon spät ... Da spazieren ❤️
I am an Indian (Northern part, and I point this out because South Indian cuisine is different) and I am absolutely stunned to see how much of my cuisine today has Turkish origins. Sherbets are wildly popular here. What the Turks called "Pilaf" is a common dish here under the name of "Pulao/Pulav". This is so lovely 💟
Indian food is also awesome very rich and spicy and I loved biryani (a differnt kind of pilav colorful). Spice makes foods delicious. I am not sure it is northern or southern india
Yes, I was amazed to see sherbat which we drink in liquid form only and not in ice-cream like form, pilaf which we call pulav/pulao here and also ayran which we call taak in marathi in maharashtra or lassi which is thicker form than ayran😃
I'm a Turkish person and I studied in Romania and realized that you eat a lot of Turkish food there. We have a common food culture (ciorba, ghiveci, sarmale, tocanita etc.) and our foods are similar. especially our cheeses and olives are almost the same.
you can see these dishes with the same names in bosnia , libya,algeria, jordan, russia, bulgaria and in so many other post ottoman countries. the east way to recognise them is by looking at their name like, sarma, kebap, kapama, boza, borek, etc, Greetings to you all from Turkey
Many of these foods are prevalent in the middle east too! it goes even to countries who weren't under ottoman control. (i.e. Oman, Eastern yemen, etc.)
Until now I remembered the similarities between Swahili and Turkish. And somehow even in culture. We cal it chai here too, pilaf is known as pilau. It’s really exciting. Even the sweets are quite similar.
@@julianashitindi5421 Ottoman Empire ruled Somalia nearly 350 years, 5-10 years Kenya and Uganda. So we sure have some cultural similarities. Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa all together create this culture and that is why it is so rich.
I am half Indian still I have eaten many of these foods like Kebabs, Turkish coffee, Turkish tea, Sherbet. Never had Pilaf but it looks like Biriyani. Just goes to say how food has an impact all over the world no matter where it originates from.
Dolma is very popular here in Sweden, introduced in the mid 1700 . We call them "Kåldolmar" aka kaledolma wrapped in kaleleaves and stuffed with mincedmeats and spices.
Charles XII lived in Turkey during his exile 1709 - 1714 under the protection of Ottomans. Probably he eas the one introduced sarma and köfte after his return to Sweden.
This was impressively accurate video. Who ever came up with this idea, should come to İstanbul and find me. I'm gonna make him eat baklava until he can't stand up.
I don't know how accurate this is but it's said Fatima Sultana, Sultan Suleiman the magnificent's sister killed her husband by feeding him excessive baklava on her weeding night to get rid of him lol.
@@aroojbasma1990 that's some common known story between historians. That's even processed in magnificent century lmao (global known Turkish series that narrated Sultan Suleiman's era)
Guys I think every ethnic group in the Empire had a claim to Sarma, I reckon today Turkish moms would do battle with Moms from Romania, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Georgia, and even Armenia to the crown of the best Sarma recipe. BTW my Anne (Mom) is now looking at me like I just betrayed her. Yasik.
İ have a great respect to you guys, the only country tries to proof that the ottoman empire' cuisine belong to them is Armenia, they even call lahmacun Armenian pizza
Sarma is even in Sweden, introduced there by Swedish King Charles XII the ironhead, actually a video about him would be good. He also carried words kalabalik (crowded), jarramas (naughty) and yildirim (thunder).
I’ve had the pleasure of eating some of these foods in Ankara, Turkey. Here in the U.S. my family enjoys Baklava especially for celebrations. Diner Kabob has become popular in the Philippines having been brought back by migrant workers having spent years in the area.
By the way, I want to clarify one thing. If you are wondering if a dish is Turkish, look at its name. The name of Turkish dishes often indicates an "action". Like Dolma which means "stuffed", sarma which means "wrapped", döner which means "spins/turning/turning thing" and I have to mention that Shwarma word is not Arabic, Its origin is Çevirme which means "turning". Also yoğurt comes from "yoğurtmak" and meaning of it "acidify and condensation". This is a good indicator for determine Turkish origin foods. We usually think simple. So we naming things simple 😊 In a cuisine, maybe a fancy name sells food but delicious taste addict for life time. This is our perspective 😊 Great video btw. Thanks.
That’s not true. There are many foods with turkish names that are not of turkish origin. For example dolma and sarma are turkish names but not originally turkish foods. These were eaten in the eastern Mediterranean for thousands of years before the Ottomans moved to the area. Vine leaves were cultivated for thousands of years in the Mediterranean along with the production of wine. The Turks did not have or know of vine leaves in Asia were they came from, the actual turkish diet was purely nomadic which was basically meat and dairy as all nomadic tribe’s diet. In fact the turks adopted the foods from the native people when they migrated to the eastern Mediterranean. The names of many foods today are turkish because the Ottomans ruled the area for centuries but the foods are not actually turkish.
Among the many downsides of the Turkish rule in the Balkans, vast influence of Turkish cuisine pops out as by far the most positive aspect of ther 500 years long presence in the region. Mixed with Slavic love for pork and dairy products, Hungarian love for peppers and hearty stews and Viennese mastery in making cakes and sweets, it gave us a unique fusion of European and Middle-eastern flavors that make us happy to be alive, despite all the problems in the region. Long story short, Turkish food is fantastic! :D
Can you do a video on what the life of a Chinese emperor was like? Everything from childhood to what they ate, to what daily life was like....please!!!!
I've read tok much chinese historical novels to answer your question ona written format lol, although not something to be proub about, because the novels tend to be 🥴
It doesn't mean Ottomans or Turks invented it. Turkish was lingua franca and we also borrowed so many Persian and Arabic words. Kabab, Kunefe, Lahmajun, Hummus, etc are all Arabic words. Kofte, pilav, cacik etc are from Persian.
@@basmalasaad3039 Yes, many Arabs that i met thought the same way. But i found on the internet that shawarma's etymological origin is Turkish "çevirme". Maybe different sources say different things you should look it up.
Yes the fact is that we have no written recipes from the Ottoman palace kitchen. The creator of this video just assumed our popular dishes must have been consumed in the palace as well. The fact is we know very little.
Thank you so much for this topic. I am a huge fan of Ottoman Empire history and there just isn't as much attention to the history as other periods and cultures. More, please!!!! Thanks :)
@@hawkarKurdish-z7t What kind of an argument is that? :DD According to your logic, USA should disappear, China should fall into pieces, Hungary should move 6000 kilometers east bla bla bla. And you should not leave your home, I mean it.
It's amazing that we can trace something as popular as the donner kebab or even Baklava, which you can buy as a desert from your local Turkish kebab shop, right back to the grand days of the Sultans. Foods back then we created using local ingredients, you had none of this imported stuff, if you were Turkish, you ate foods found in Turkey, or sometimes, if you were rich enough, you could have them imported from far off places, but this luxury would have been reserved strictly for royalty and the upper classes only as importing them was a lengthy, and sometimes dangerous process. Many imports to the west arrived along the silk road. Nowadays, we should thank ourselves lucky we only have to go down to the local high street to enjoy foods from all across the globe. You've got Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Italian, Peruvian, Thai, Japanese, Jamaican, Mexican, Greek, Spanish, African and so many more, all different countries bringing their culinary delights to our high streets. Just think, if it were not for our immigrants, those who came here many years ago for a better life, we would not have these things. Please think about that when you're considering what immigrants have contributed to your country. x
My husband is half turkish & he is a good cook , but we are vegetarians since few years now so he made his own version ! Glad my in laws can send us turkish coffee once in a while
I knew a Turkish-American girl who made the best baklava. She made a tray of her favorite dishes for our office once and I had an out-of-body experience. One thing I thought was odd was she would not give out her recipes. These days I don't blame her for keeping them from an office full of judgmental Karens.
While the basics of baklava is well known, many, regions, clans, families have come up with techniques or ingredients to make theirs stand out and they guard these like treasurers. It is even considered a bit offensive in some areas to ask what they put in it.
In Romania ( the ottomans were there for a time), we have all these kinds of food. Pretty accurate to the originals, in some we can use pork meat . They go with red wine , they send you in Paradise. But it's a lot of work. Only grandma's can do it properly :P
Totally agree with only grandmas' can do it properly. They can do it, but never able to explain it properly, you can only learn it by doings lots of times in person.
@@Mr.Brewer83 Like the Uyghur genocide that is still active? or the Palestinian genocide? oh and wheres the proof of this Genocide? Turkey did say come in and lets find out what really happened, inviting Armenian scholars and historians but since then the Armenian people have been pretty quite after the invitation, i wonder why? hmm...
Im so used to this dudes voice saying things like "the stink was so bad that..." "the pirates teeth were so filthy that they..." nice to hear something appetizing for a change 😂🤣😂
before greeks or balkan countrys call these food theirs i have one question to you. if u guys know these foods before ottoman empire.... then why italy poland germany france dont know how to cook them? remember before ottoman empire u guys were in roman empire right? so how they dont know still these foods? just think about it before call these foods. but today if u go pakistan or india u can se smilar foods. even indian people think yogurt belong them... and ottoman empire never conquer india... so how they know these foods from far away and how germany italt france even poland dont know these foods? use your brain pls.
@@kayacenk4164 India was under turko-mongolic rule for a shit ton of years from the gaznes to the Delhi Sultanate to Mughal empire. It isn't surprising for them to have yoghurt and stuff
Coffee is ethiopian origin and the name means wine (or any beverage) in arabic. We call brown the "coffee color" these days but coffee came to ottoman from Arabs.
I am from Iran and I love Turkish cuisine, more importantly I love how much in common we have in food. Many of these dishes are also served in Iran and I never thought they were originally from Turkey.
@@l2516 Note to yourself, Turks, least of all Turkish elite are anything but religious now and then. If it's a sin, than they'll say ''May God forgive me'' and do it anyway.
@@BALLARDTWIN Where do you even read those things? Father Murad was arguably one of the least religious of House of Osman, he was a notorius poet, one of the followers of Persian court ways, and what do you think he aimed to do when he resigned? To listen to poets and musicians, have wine and lay back. Ottoman Sultans were not religious in general. Especially in more tribal eras. Mehmed's close friends were executed for heresy, after his demise for godsake!
A medieval chef named Raimondo De Cabanni actually rose from slavery to knighthood in 14th century Naples. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimondo_de%27_Cabanni
Even though all the food’s pretty accurate, they are just the ones that have become extremely famous in the US. This to me feels like an American rendition of the Ottoman cuisine. There is so much more that is still known and there are so many recipes that still remain from that era. Good intro video nonetheless
Yep, unfortunately. Especially the immensely rich fish cousine of Istanbul is not mentioned. There are hundreds of soup, meatball, eggplant, cold dish etc. recipes but here only some “cherries” are shown.
I have been to Turkey 2x once for a month with a typical family. Loved the food and surprisingly got really into Aryan. I avoid sweets so the yogurt drink was a healthy option. As a visiting American they plied me with Baklava like you can't imagine. I was flattered but embarrassed anyone had to work so hard when I'm happy with a baguette.Imagine waking to the smell of baking bread every day!!!
+Weird History I didnt expect flaws from you guys, but I see now. Chai is not from Chinese, but from Indian languages. Chinese call tea for "Cha" and not "Chai"
Theres a restaurant in the back streets of Taksim in Istanbul which makes the Ottoman Meat Pilav dish. The family who own the restaurant are direct descendants of the Sultans Chef and are using the same recipe. If you're in the area I fully recommend checking it out.
I love Turkish food fastest growing cousin in the world , well I’m Albanian so we have a lot of Turkish influence but also Turks have a very delicious dish called Albanian liver , great video good job 👍
Much love and respect to the beautiful land of Turkey and the amazing people of the great land! 🇵🇰❤️🇹🇷 Always remember your brotherly nation of Pakistan is standing shoulder to shoulder with you.
I clicked on this video, with the expectation that most historical facts would be false like saying that baklava and dolma is greek... finally this video is talking straight up facts, even the word “dolma” is turkish and comes from “doldurmak” which means filling , so who ever is claiming it as theirs can fight me
Ok but you have to consider that Greece and many other Balkan countries where under the ottoman empire. All the foods mixed together. Yes they are Turkish. But they are Greek too. They are part of the culture and you can't deny that. Also don't you think it's funny that dolma was liked and supposedly "created" by the ottoman empire right after they took over Constantinople?🤔🤔
@@soniapl2120 what does dolma means in your language? Dolma is a %100 Turkish word. Do you understand what I mean? Baklava is an Arabic word and you guys claim it's yours. Claiming it's being part of culture is different claiming it belongs to your culture honey. Yoğurt is a Turkish food and the root is "Yoğurmak" which means kneading. Because old Asian Turks were kneading milk to get Yoğurt. And a Turkish man who escaped Turkey to Greece got the name rights for your country but you claim it's yours. What about this?
@@talialee6364 have you ever considered that because Greeks where under the ottoman empire, the food is going to take a Turkish name?We werent free. Of course they are not going to name it with a greek name. And Greeks don't claim that it's theirs. What I see is Turkish people claiming everything. And for fucks sake you can't claim yogurt. It's the simplest thing and Greeks have a greek name for it, we just use the Turkish root because we where under the ottoman empire FOR 400 YEARS. It's not Turkish. Honey 😒 We don't claim we created it but it's part of our culture so it's as greek as it is Turkish. Get over it
In addition, sultan had a large group of staff, whose duty is, carrying ice inside insulated barrels from the peak of mountains, even in the middle of summer, they were enjoying cold drinks, when refrigerator were not invented...
I had many of these dishes being a duel citizen British American with living in both Countries since birth a few times. During my years in Europe is where I had many of the dishes in your video. My absolute favorite is the Donner kebab. They have something similar in America yes but it is much thinner in both the actual thickness and in width. It is prepped slightly as well. I miss it loads actually.
Good video, now I want to eat Turkish food. Next time you could make a similar video about the Chinese emperors or the French kings in Versailles, or about Renaissance Italy. Renaissance in our country was not only a period of great art and cultural flowering, but also of culinary experiments.
There is a big population from Lebanon that migrated to Mexico in the early 19 century, bringing their culture and traditional cuisine which gave birth to a lot of traditional Mexican dishes.
The döner kebab invented in turkey (the original kebabs were invented in the Levant) was brought by Lebanese emigrants to todays Mexico and is known as Taco today
Before the Turks settled in Asia Minor, Turkic “cuisine” basically consisted of horse-meat and fermented mare’s milk. Ottoman imperial cuisine, on the other hand, was probably the most varied and elaborate mixture of foods and dishes ever to exist as a unified culinary entity up to the 20th century; it was, however, “Turkish” in name only: the cuisine of the Ottoman Court was essentially an amalgam of the imperial cuisines of Persia and Byzantium; over time, it also adopted many elements from the ethnic culinary traditions of the wide array of cultures from both within and beyond the borders of the Empire: Greek, Balkan, Levantine, Egyptian, Berber, Arabian, Armenian, Caucasian, Venetian, Genoese, Florentine, Catalan, and others.
Turks call Sherbet Sharbat. It's pronounced differently. Should have included Turkish Delight, or Rahat Lokum as well. Sarma in Croatia is made with cabbage leaves. The Ottoman empire had a major impact on the food and culture of Croatia
One of my Croatian friends also called Lokum as Rahat Lokum and I just couldn’t understand why. Rahat means “Relax” and probably in this context it is just the brand of the lokum (which is not even well known in Turkey). So: Turkish Delight = Lokum and that’s it!
@@ninetailedfoxie That is actually Rahat ul-hulküm which means 'Boğaz Rahatlatan' in Arabic., not a maker or a brand name. Became rahat lokum over the years.
@@LeylaOzden-fc1bi wow her gun yeni bir bilgi :) thank you very much for this info, I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it and I am from the city of lokum, Safranbolu 😁 thanks!
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Was he saying 'sher*bert*? Can you even read?
I would like to know about the food eaten by the Russian tsars over the years .
i am turkish and we never use i am rich enough to eat baklava everyday, do not make stuff up.
North Lord different parts of the country maybe 🤷♂️
@Weird History
Ottomans drank tea in 400bc? Wow! That's amazing! How in the world did they manage to pull that off?
So I'm Turkish and I used to eat all these dishes everyday (including "the ruler liked"). After I moved to anither country I thought I could cook these myself, since my mom made it look so easy. Man I was wrong.
Lol! You could never have your Anne’s magic. It’s an exclusive right of all Turkish moms. 😅
my mom cooked me hünkar beğendi once in 20 years lol
It takes some practice. I remember my first manti..It was disgusting and how many times a had to throw my pilav in the garbage cause it was uncooked or sticky.
i getchu bro :( im Mexican living in the Middle East (our food is our culture) and i cant cook my favorite foods, specially cuz there are no ingredients in here for that :(
@@OMorningstar666 I'm a middle-eastern living in Canada and I have the same issue
Australian here but I was fortunate to have become friends with three Turkish couples who had moved out here. Being invited to their homes for dinner was an absolute treat. The ladies did most of the preparations but the husband would cook the kebabs on a barbeque. Freshly cooked home made Baclava is to die for. They were lovely people and funny and very hospitable so between their great company and their outstanding food, it was a night to look forward to. Their cuisine is overall healthy but amazingly tasty. Can't wait to visit Turkey myself, especially after watching all episodes of Ertugrul twice.
Omg i hope you visit all the palaces in İstanbul to see how fancy those sultans lived! 🤩 And if you have an interest about Ottomans, you should visit "Bursa" of Turkey this city was the capital of Ottoman Empire for years
Lol, Turks are really desperate for tourists 😂😂
So you watched nearly a Thousand episodes, lol ok
" Freshly cooked home made Baclava is to die for." YEEEESSSSS. I work with a lot of... not white people (not sure their exact ethnicity, I think a few are egyption) and ONE time one of them brought HOMEmade BACLAVA, which I already love, but is very hard to find, and I LOST my shit. I literally dropped what I was doing to grab a piece. SO good.
Good stuff mate 🇹🇷🇦🇺🇹🇷🇦🇺🇹🇷🇦🇺Aussie Aussie Aussie
Ottoman Sultans used to eat these. I live in Turkey and eat them almost everyday, lol.
These nuts
Just means you're royalty 🤷🏾♀️
One of the best parts of living today is that things that were once extremely expensive are now sold at any old marketplace.
@@celinekumarsingh940 Nearly every Turks eat it? We're all royalties LOL 😂
But most of the sultans didn't taste some delicious tomato soup or menemen...
Sultan did not consider coffee a indecent drink. He didn't like people gathering in coffee houses as when they did, they spoke of politics. He saw it as a threat. That was the reason to coffee and tobacco ban.
Haha makes sence, thanks!
Woah he was quite clever
And coffee brings tons of people together so makes sense
What a chad.
Not all Sultans but more specifically Murad IV, he was a very hard-working and buff guy who hated acts of laziness. After his young death, coffee consumption was common once again.
Never realised That Sorbet (the icecream kind) actually also originated from this ancient Sherbat beverage. Thanks Ottoman empire!
;) thanks
I started making Turkish sharbet. It's delicious and very refreshing. Lot heathier than store bought juice.
Sherbet is actually Persian, which became famous among the Turks (Central Asian tribes), who conquered Byzantine Empire renamed it Turkey after their identity (Turks) and introduced Sherbet there. It is NOT Turkish
The original one is made with rose water. Makes it so much lighter. Still a very common drink for post partum moms and also served to people who come and visit newborn and new mom ✨🤗
@@sohamsarode7975 Bence kıskanma ve yalan söyleme. Persleri 1000 yıl boyunca yöneten Türklerdir. 😄
I've tried almost every type of cuisine but Turkish food and Afghan food is unmatchable. They are truly culinary geniuses.
What a discovery wow.
I sure you will regret said that if you never tried asean food 😏
@@georgebouchaaya8360 Isnt it almost the same
afghan food ne lan? can you elaborate?
Afghan food is something else once you try it you Will understand
Fun fact: Swedish meatballs aren’t Swedish. When the king of Sweden escaped to the Ottoman Empire he got the recipe for kofte and brought it back to Sweden.
We in india also eat kofte😀😀. I ate it yesterday😋
As a Turkish girl who visited Stockholm last year, I tried their meatballs because my roommate said that they were special and so delicious. So I ordered them in Gamla Stan and it tastes exactly like our meatballs. I had no idea that it was our recipe LOL did I regret that I paid 50 euro for a plate of meatballs and 2 glass of hot wine? Hell no, I ate them deliciously. 🤣🤣 but I could have cooked lots of meatballs that could feed me for at least a month with that 50 euro. 🤣🤣
@@ozlemdr6076 lmao 50 euro for a plate wth
onlarda yabancı kazıklıyor demekki bizimkiler gibi
*Angry Pewdiepie noises*
@@Euzuner41 aslında bir tabak köfte 15 euroydu, yanında içtiklerim biraz fazla tuttu. 10 euro da servis ücreti aldılar, bilemiyorum ne kadar doğru. Onun hesabını yapamadım o anda.
Wait, this isn't Weird History...
This is Delicious History
Hahaahaha
There's a weird and satisfying feeling when Weird History talks about food.
Now it makes me hungry.
You wright nothing weird all delicious great video thankyou
yup
+Weird History I didnt expect flaws from you guys, but I see now.
Chai is not from Chinese, but from Indian languages. Chinese call tea for "Cha" and not "Chai"
The Turkish cuisine is incredibly rich and diverse, a true delight.
It's amazing how we can these days afford what kings, Sultans and aristocrats used to eat and more. That's a blessing.
thanks to mass production and chemical substances.
@@LAMERFENER what chemical substances 😂😂😂
@@Poison2859 many.
@@NordianAdmiral you do realize that everything in this world consists of chemical substances.
Still Turks are lucky to enjoy good food in 21st century
Since most foods came from great nation
yup
Yeah i know i am a turk
UNCHARTED KING imagine losing Istanbul and being salty hundreds of years later
Well that's one of few things are left...
As a Turkish historical-content creator, and lover of this channel, nothing could make me happier than this video
Hilly didnt you guys came from Mongolia?
When you will go back?
True but he pronounced like everything wrong 😂
Turkish historical content? You mean only Ottoman dynasty period ? Or history of whole region like Schumer,Persian,Parthian,Arabic,Seljuk,Byzantine heritage
Are you Turkish? If so, are all Turkish women as beautiful as you?
Hilly ... aynen! Ilk defa bir video da hakki verilerek yemeklerimiz tanitilmis
I never thought a Weird History would ever get me hungry until now
You must have missed the Donner party episode. Lol
There was an episode on the Medieval diet.
Just Some Guy without a Mustache Turkish food always does that.
Turkish food sounds mad good to be honest
Hello again
I am an Indian Bengali.... We eat dolma, Sarma, pilaf, little different version of borek, sherbat, different version of sultan's delight, ayran,.... I am so amazed to know that the food we love to have nowadays have traces of ottoman food...
Isn't a samosa like borek? Maybe the influence from turkey is via the Mughal emperors?
"Pilaf" is an Indian cuisine.
@Musa Momand ( موسی مومند ) The cuisine is older than Afganistan itself.
@Musa Momand ( موسی مومند ) Last time I checked, Persia is Iran.
The oldest known mention of the Pilaw technique can be found in Arabic books from the 13th century. Century, written in Baghdad and Syria.
It may also be a linguistic takeover from India. However, the cooking technique for Pilaw was only introduced in India by Muslims.
We eat most of this in Serbia , i dont care who invented it, i love to eat it. We and the Turks share a lot because of their centuries of influence on our people.
Turkey invaded Serbia and they passed their food onto your culture.
@@phoenixgrove yeah same here in Lebanon we eat all of these stuff as well and we even have Turkish words in our dialect because of the colonization of the ottoman
Turkish has Serbian influence too.
@@javierescuella2917 we have a lot of tuekish words in serbian vocabulary too
Nice way of thinking, not everybody is as civilized.
Turkish cuisine is some of the most delicious food that I've ever tasted. ❤️
As a Dutch born Turk with Turkish parents, I have to agree ❤️
Thank you so much ❤
The best part is how vegetables taste. Sun-ripened veggies cooked in a stew.
@@melisademir9137 I love chicken and lamb Adana and lavash!
Sadly I went to the wrong place at the wrong season when I visited Turkey with a tour group. I knew it was tasty and looked delicious but we only got fed bland fish and chips.
What a delightful reminder of the years I lived in Turkey! I am definitely making Turkish food for my sons this week!
Turkey is a beautiful country. I was in Side and the people are so welcoming and the food is DELICIOUS 😋
Jetzt hast du mich an die Zeit errinert...
Schön Abends ein Bierchen schlürfen bei der Ecke zum Meer wo dies eine alte Dings steht 🌙🙈 ist schon spät ...
Da spazieren ❤️
I am an Indian (Northern part, and I point this out because South Indian cuisine is different) and I am absolutely stunned to see how much of my cuisine today has Turkish origins. Sherbets are wildly popular here. What the Turks called "Pilaf" is a common dish here under the name of "Pulao/Pulav". This is so lovely 💟
Indian food is also awesome very rich and spicy and I loved biryani (a differnt kind of pilav colorful). Spice makes foods delicious. I am not sure it is northern or southern india
@@leobelleobel2007biryani is popular all over India. Mutton, chicken, beef and seafood versions are popular in the South
@@leobelleobel2007 its, popular all over India. But each side has it's own version, and is very different.
Yes, I was amazed to see sherbat which we drink in liquid form only and not in ice-cream like form, pilaf which we call pulav/pulao here and also ayran which we call taak in marathi in maharashtra or lassi which is thicker form than ayran😃
@@leobelleobel2007 Biryani is courtesy of Mughal empire
Ottomon and Mughal empire introduced great foods
My parents are Romanian and now I’m realizing that all the dishes I ate growing up were probably from the Turkish.
Sarma means wrapping in Turkish. Pastırma means pressing. Anything else?
If your parent's are Romanian doesnt that make you Romanian?? Lol
Lol I think 😂
@@trajictempr8574 lmao
I'm a Turkish person and I studied in Romania and realized that you eat a lot of Turkish food there. We have a common food culture (ciorba, ghiveci, sarmale, tocanita etc.) and our foods are similar. especially our cheeses and olives are almost the same.
And I thought these are a Bulgarian traditional dishes, until i realised we been under Ottoman yoke for 500 years 😅
I too thought these were albanian but hey we should look back to history
you can see these dishes with the same names in bosnia , libya,algeria, jordan, russia, bulgaria and in so many other post ottoman countries. the east way to recognise them is by looking at their name like, sarma, kebap, kapama, boza, borek, etc,
Greetings to you all from Turkey
@@haskovali Russia is not a post ottomoman country?
Many of these foods are prevalent in the middle east too! it goes even to countries who weren't under ottoman control. (i.e. Oman, Eastern yemen, etc.)
lee it s dear. Crimea is unfortunately annexed by russia which was under ottoman.
Coffee was hard to get in Turkey after the Ottoman Empire lost their lands to the Europeans in Ww1.. That’s when chai became more popular than coffee
İts more like chai is easier to make. Making coffee takes more time
Also cheaper
Until now I remembered the similarities between Swahili and Turkish. And somehow even in culture. We cal it chai here too, pilaf is known as pilau. It’s really exciting. Even the sweets are quite similar.
@@julianashitindi5421 Ottoman Empire ruled Somalia nearly 350 years, 5-10 years Kenya and Uganda. So we sure have some cultural similarities. Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa all together create this culture and that is why it is so rich.
Coffee was made illegal in late 19th century
I am half Indian still I have eaten many of these foods like Kebabs, Turkish coffee, Turkish tea, Sherbet. Never had Pilaf but it looks like Biriyani. Just goes to say how food has an impact all over the world no matter where it originates from.
Pulao you might know
Dolma is very popular here in Sweden, introduced in the mid 1700 . We call them "Kåldolmar" aka kaledolma wrapped in kaleleaves and stuffed with mincedmeats and spices.
Dolma comes from "doldurmak". Which means filling😊
Charles XII lived in Turkey during his exile 1709 - 1714 under the protection of Ottomans. Probably he eas the one introduced sarma and köfte after his return to Sweden.
@@talialee6364 No from "dolmak" - "to GET filled". "Doldurmak" is "to fill something". Bu what she/he means is actually "sarma" - "to roll - to wrap".
I love Turkish food, the people and the country! And some of their serials!
Tip: Don't watch this video on an empty stomach. Learned that the hard way.
I watch this video when fasting.
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ne szaman yiyceğimi sana mı sorcam aslanım?
@@RexoryByzaboo You're too dangerous to be kept alive!
This was impressively accurate video. Who ever came up with this idea, should come to İstanbul and find me. I'm gonna make him eat baklava until he can't stand up.
Hahahahahahahahah
I don't know how accurate this is but it's said Fatima Sultana, Sultan Suleiman the magnificent's sister killed her husband by feeding him excessive baklava on her weeding night to get rid of him lol.
@@aroojbasma1990 that's some common known story between historians. That's even processed in magnificent century lmao (global known Turkish series that narrated Sultan Suleiman's era)
When we will be getting back to having friends from abroad over and feeding them untill they can not breath 😢😣😔
Everything was accurate except for THOSE HORRIFYING PRONOUNCIATIONS! But I don't blame him, Turkish accent is hard.
3:11 ayy that’s me
Hey just asking
When will you return to the Ottoman throne?
@@grobner5879 You'll gain the throne someday
@@grobner5879 Trust me, you'll get it 😉
Please don't kill your son your wife is evil
I want to ask u why u killed sahzade Mustafa he was innocent
It’s hard to believe how many of these dishes I have had or eat regularly here in Canada. Amazing how much influence this culture still has today!
By the way, most of the meat dishes were cooked with fruits like apricots or plums. This was a distinctive feature of Ottoman cuisine.
There is a yellow melon kebab. I do eat it once a year since it really requires skill to cook and special season to find proper melons.
"Sarma" is a popular dish in Romania, brought by otoman influence.
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In croatia too
Guys I think every ethnic group in the Empire had a claim to Sarma, I reckon today Turkish moms would do battle with Moms from Romania, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Georgia, and even Armenia to the crown of the best Sarma recipe.
BTW my Anne (Mom) is now looking at me like I just betrayed her. Yasik.
İ have a great respect to you guys, the only country tries to proof that the ottoman empire' cuisine belong to them is Armenia, they even call lahmacun Armenian pizza
Sarma is even in Sweden, introduced there by Swedish King Charles XII the ironhead, actually a video about him would be good. He also carried words kalabalik (crowded), jarramas (naughty) and yildirim (thunder).
I’ve had the pleasure of eating some of these foods in Ankara, Turkey. Here in the U.S. my family enjoys Baklava especially for celebrations. Diner Kabob has become popular in the Philippines having been brought back by migrant workers having spent years in the area.
Why would you go to Ankara as a tourist 💀💀💀
I wrnt to Istanbul last year. The food was truly amazing. Can't wait to go back 🤩
Go to my city mate we make the best kebabs,ADANA.
*I was born in Russia* and, I am completely impressed! by this video God bless 💜
Oh thank god, I finally seen a comment section where the verified didn't get many likes
How do you have 409k subs but no video?
@@Cwrigz he probably deleted it
By the way, I want to clarify one thing. If you are wondering if a dish is Turkish, look at its name. The name of Turkish dishes often indicates an "action". Like Dolma which means "stuffed", sarma which means "wrapped", döner which means "spins/turning/turning thing" and I have to mention that Shwarma word is not Arabic, Its origin is Çevirme which means "turning". Also yoğurt comes from "yoğurtmak" and meaning of it "acidify and condensation". This is a good indicator for determine Turkish origin foods. We usually think simple. So we naming things simple 😊 In a cuisine, maybe a fancy name sells food but delicious taste addict for life time. This is our perspective 😊 Great video btw. Thanks.
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That’s not true. There are many foods with turkish names that are not of turkish origin.
For example dolma and sarma are turkish names but not originally turkish foods. These were eaten in the eastern Mediterranean for thousands of years before the Ottomans moved to the area. Vine leaves were cultivated for thousands of years in the Mediterranean along with the production of wine. The Turks did not have or know of vine leaves in Asia were they came from, the actual turkish diet was purely nomadic which was basically meat and dairy as all nomadic tribe’s diet.
In fact the turks adopted the foods from the native people when they migrated to the eastern Mediterranean. The names of many foods today are turkish because the Ottomans ruled the area for centuries but the foods are not actually turkish.
Sultan be saltin'...
And pepperin'.
Sultan bae (it's like salt bae but as a sultan,coincidental the salt bae guy is Turkish)
I’m insultand.
@@LetsTakeWalk Ok.. just.. don't be asultan me...
Get out of here!
PS: I still laughed
Too much puns!!
I love it.
Among the many downsides of the Turkish rule in the Balkans, vast influence of Turkish cuisine pops out as by far the most positive aspect of ther 500 years long presence in the region. Mixed with Slavic love for pork and dairy products, Hungarian love for peppers and hearty stews and Viennese mastery in making cakes and sweets, it gave us a unique fusion of European and Middle-eastern flavors that make us happy to be alive, despite all the problems in the region.
Long story short, Turkish food is fantastic! :D
Can you do a video on what the life of a Chinese emperor was like?
Everything from childhood to what they ate, to what daily life was like....please!!!!
I read somewhere that ice cream was made in china
my favourite kind of food are actually chinese. my assumption is They must've been living like a god
I've read tok much chinese historical novels to answer your question ona written format lol, although not something to be proub about, because the novels tend to be 🥴
Maharajas too!! No wealth like India!
@@-TasyaNabila same here
As a middle eastern guy, I've never realized how many of my favorite foods come from the ottomans
It doesn't mean Ottomans or Turks invented it. Turkish was lingua franca and we also borrowed so many Persian and Arabic words. Kabab, Kunefe, Lahmajun, Hummus, etc are all Arabic words. Kofte, pilav, cacik etc are from Persian.
As far as I know the name 'Shawarma' in Arabic comes from Turkish word 'Çevirme', which kind of means turning something around similar to Döner.
Döner is the ancestor of shawarma and gyros.
thanks I am Moroccan I had asked few Turkish people about the word Shawarma because I was almost sure it is a Turkish word not a Lebanese word
Really? Makes sense but it also reminds me of the Arabic شوى meaning grilled...
@@basmalasaad3039
Yes, many Arabs that i met thought the same way. But i found on the internet that shawarma's etymological origin is Turkish "çevirme". Maybe different sources say different things you should look it up.
"I'm not rich enough for baklava everyday" = your mom saying "you got McDonald's money??"
😂 😂 😂
Baklava is awfully sweet in my opinion anyway
lol
@@noname20022 oof
@@goblinuldrogatinsmoala depending on who cooked it.
Now I'm craving Mediterranean food
Turkish food is middle eastern and central asian! Not Mediterranean! We use different spices!
@@a.3081-b9g Some of it, yes, but I'm sure you could get into an argument with a Greek about where some of the influence for your food comes from.
Turkish food isn't mediterranean? haven't you ever tasted anything from Aegean branch of Turkish cuisine?
@cristopher wong so?
@@a.3081-b9g I'm Turkish and Turkey is a very Mediterranean country..
I love Turkish food, love from Pakistan 🇵🇰🇹🇷
We love you too brother. Respect from Türkiye.
Jive Pakistan
Dunno much about the history, but everytime i've been to Turkey i've always found a new food that i loved.
Keep in mind that those dishes might be merely %1 of palace cousine due to palace kitchen's recipe policy :D
Yes the fact is that we have no written recipes from the Ottoman palace kitchen. The creator of this video just assumed our popular dishes must have been consumed in the palace as well. The fact is we know very little.
Thank you so much for this topic. I am a huge fan of Ottoman Empire history and there just isn't as much attention to the history as other periods and cultures. More, please!!!! Thanks :)
Greetings from Turkey:)
tomris u didnt you guys came from mid Asia?
How about you go back to Mongolia?
@@hawkarKurdish-z7t that was unnecessary.
@@hawkarKurdish-z7t People like you... Everytime I see these kinda comments I keep thinking. What's your point?
@@hawkarKurdish-z7t What kind of an argument is that? :DD According to your logic, USA should disappear, China should fall into pieces, Hungary should move 6000 kilometers east bla bla bla. And you should not leave your home, I mean it.
@serin T that's realy a beautiful name
It's amazing that we can trace something as popular as the donner kebab or even Baklava, which you can buy as a desert from your local Turkish kebab shop, right back to the grand days of the Sultans. Foods back then we created using local ingredients, you had none of this imported stuff, if you were Turkish, you ate foods found in Turkey, or sometimes, if you were rich enough, you could have them imported from far off places, but this luxury would have been reserved strictly for royalty and the upper classes only as importing them was a lengthy, and sometimes dangerous process. Many imports to the west arrived along the silk road. Nowadays, we should thank ourselves lucky we only have to go down to the local high street to enjoy foods from all across the globe. You've got Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Italian, Peruvian, Thai, Japanese, Jamaican, Mexican, Greek, Spanish, African and so many more, all different countries bringing their culinary delights to our high streets. Just think, if it were not for our immigrants, those who came here many years ago for a better life, we would not have these things. Please think about that when you're considering what immigrants have contributed to your country. x
I live in an city that is famous for their food carts, and it truly is a gem of the city. You can smell the whole globe from one place.
"How a sultan of the ottoman empire dined"
Well Like A Sultan.....
My husband is half turkish & he is a good cook , but we are vegetarians since few years now so he made his own version ! Glad my in laws can send us turkish coffee once in a while
I knew a Turkish-American girl who made the best baklava. She made a tray of her favorite dishes for our office once and I had an out-of-body experience. One thing I thought was odd was she would not give out her recipes. These days I don't blame her for keeping them from an office full of judgmental Karens.
“...office full of judgmental Karens.” Haha funny. I can imagine them sneering at her popularity.
Stevee Wonders bro my grandmas baklava is on point 😋
While the basics of baklava is well known, many, regions, clans, families have come up with techniques or ingredients to make theirs stand out and they guard these like treasurers. It is even considered a bit offensive in some areas to ask what they put in it.
Turkisk baklava is a slam dunk. Baklava in US is mostly in Arabic or Greek form which is not very tasty in my opinion. They're like candy.
You can watch tutorials of Turkish recipei on youtube to learn how to make it :)
Amazing! High end cuisine. I have been cooking some of these dishes since I learnt how to prepare them in Istambul!
In Romania ( the ottomans were there for a time), we have all these kinds of food. Pretty accurate to the originals, in some we can use pork meat . They go with red wine , they send you in Paradise. But it's a lot of work. Only grandma's can do it properly :P
Yup, you guys were vassal states.
@Maria Smith how does it taste
@@abbad707 very good
Totally agree with only grandmas' can do it properly. They can do it, but never able to explain it properly, you can only learn it by doings lots of times in person.
The middle east has never been as peaceful and wealthy as it was in the days of the Ottoman empire..
Amd that is why the West continues to foment war in the area. They never want to see a united Middle East or Africa again.
@@XxLAȚEXFRƏÅKxX There is difference between Ottoman Empire and Turkey
@@maxpayne3628 so tell me, what are the differences. (Beside territory and kind of rulership)
The Armenian Genocide says a little different towards the end there lol.
@@Mr.Brewer83 Like the Uyghur genocide that is still active? or the Palestinian genocide? oh and wheres the proof of this Genocide? Turkey did say come in and lets find out what really happened, inviting Armenian scholars and historians but since then the Armenian people have been pretty quite after the invitation, i wonder why? hmm...
Out of all the cuisines I've seen depicted on this channel so far, this is the absolute best! My god, these recipes are Fantastic!
Im so used to this dudes voice saying things like "the stink was so bad that..." "the pirates teeth were so filthy that they..." nice to hear something appetizing for a change 😂🤣😂
This video makes me want to go to Turkey go enjoy their cuisine. 🤗
you should come , if u are european its also quite cheap for you guys :)
Coffe also gave its name to brown in Turkish, which is "kahverengi" (coffe colour)
EDIT: Thanks for the likes!
That’s so interesting because in Japan the color brown is called cha iro or tea color!
before greeks or balkan countrys call these food theirs i have one question to you. if u guys know these foods before ottoman empire.... then why italy poland germany france dont know how to cook them? remember before ottoman empire u guys were in roman empire right? so how they dont know still these foods? just think about it before call these foods. but today if u go pakistan or india u can se smilar foods. even indian people think yogurt belong them... and ottoman empire never conquer india... so how they know these foods from far away and how germany italt france even poland dont know these foods? use your brain pls.
@@kayacenk4164 India was under turko-mongolic rule for a shit ton of years from the gaznes to the Delhi Sultanate to Mughal empire. It isn't surprising for them to have yoghurt and stuff
Coffee is ethiopian origin and the name means wine (or any beverage) in arabic. We call brown the "coffee color" these days but coffee came to ottoman from Arabs.
In Kashmir , India , we drink Turkish tea with almonds and cardamom known as 'kahwa'.
I am from Iran and I love Turkish cuisine, more importantly I love how much in common we have in food. Many of these dishes are also served in Iran and I never thought they were originally from Turkey.
I mean theres millions of turks in Iran. Its understandable that we share more than we thought and we are neighbour ofc
The Turks copied the food from Persia.
Italian, Turkish and Bosnian cuisine are the best ! 🤩
By the way Mehmed II was obsessed about sea food. Most of his daily meals werr fish, crams, oysters and mussels
M Bayrak
Must have been a world champion in the shitter then..
Was he hanafi in the way that shelled fish are considered haram to himself?
@@l2516 Note to yourself, Turks, least of all Turkish elite are anything but religious now and then.
If it's a sin, than they'll say ''May God forgive me'' and do it anyway.
@@subutaynoyan5372 but it was mehmed II wasnt he more religious than his later descendants?
I know his father murad was super religious
@@BALLARDTWIN Where do you even read those things? Father Murad was arguably one of the least religious of House of Osman, he was a notorius poet, one of the followers of Persian court ways, and what do you think he aimed to do when he resigned? To listen to poets and musicians, have wine and lay back.
Ottoman Sultans were not religious in general. Especially in more tribal eras.
Mehmed's close friends were executed for heresy, after his demise for godsake!
Hi Weird History. Can you do a video on banquets in the medieval era and their diplomatic significance?
A medieval chef named Raimondo De Cabanni actually rose from slavery to knighthood in 14th century Naples.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimondo_de%27_Cabanni
Even though all the food’s pretty accurate, they are just the ones that have become extremely famous in the US. This to me feels like an American rendition of the Ottoman cuisine. There is so much more that is still known and there are so many recipes that still remain from that era. Good intro video nonetheless
Yep, unfortunately. Especially the immensely rich fish cousine of Istanbul is not mentioned. There are hundreds of soup, meatball, eggplant, cold dish etc. recipes but here only some “cherries” are shown.
Yes indeed. The food shown in this video are popular Turkish dishes but there are no original palace dishes listed.
I’m Turkish and my name is Suleiman and so when I was little my mother made me Turkish coffee and told me story about Suleiman the magnificent.
I have been to Turkey 2x once for a month with a typical family. Loved the food and surprisingly got really into Aryan. I avoid sweets so the yogurt drink was a healthy option. As a visiting American they plied me with Baklava like you can't imagine. I was flattered but embarrassed anyone had to work so hard when I'm happy with a baguette.Imagine waking to the smell of baking bread every day!!!
Ekmek olmazsa olmazdır bizde. Yoksa karnımız doymaz :))
Dude... he is sultan of biggest kingdom at that time. How dare you made me watch this and drooling! I subscribed! ❤
I've never heard of most of these dishes. But wow, they do sound delicious.
YOU NEED TO TRY DONER KEBAB, YOU'RE MISSING OUTTTT
Me: Died?
Weird history: No, DINED*.
ME: ok.
+Weird History I didnt expect flaws from you guys, but I see now.
Chai is not from Chinese, but from Indian languages. Chinese call tea for "Cha" and not "Chai"
@@nr1NPC ur right
Ikr I was like oh they probably misspelt it but nope apparently that’s a word
Theres a restaurant in the back streets of Taksim in Istanbul which makes the Ottoman Meat Pilav dish. The family who own the restaurant are direct descendants of the Sultans Chef and are using the same recipe.
If you're in the area I fully recommend checking it out.
Im Mexican-American and I love turkish coffee! Turkish people should try Cuban coffee it is also very good!
Luv the vids. Dont ever stop making them.
How it's full of errors and misinformation
@@morgothbauglir3609 like??? If there is misinformation claiming there is without any specifics is just as grievous.
Ottoman and Turkish food is the best food in the world. They combined Greek, Persian and Central Asian cuisine and perfected it.
@Öksökö Yes you do watch this video
th-cam.com/video/eAeOBOzW5So/w-d-xo.html
"The ottoman empire ruled vast swaths of western Asia, south eastern Europe and north Africa"
The true middle men of history.
The true middle men of history ? What do you mean by that?
@@6wx689 the empire was in the middle of everything.
Not entire North Africa they stopped at Algeria my friend. Couldn’t steps foot inside Morocco 🇲🇦
@@mira882-z9m because morroco became tributary state of ottomans. Thats why.
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Turkish Food is one of the best in the World. Now I feel hungry 😋
I love Turkish food fastest growing cousin in the world , well I’m Albanian so we have a lot of Turkish influence but also Turks have a very delicious dish called Albanian liver , great video good job 👍
@@skyhighbora Cobblestones were called Arnavut Kaldırımı because Albanians were hired for the construction. Sounds like an urban legend but its true.
Suggestion: The evolution of Southern cuisine, from colonial days, to antebellum days to today.
Pamela Mays check out Michael Twitty’s, award-winning, “The Cooking Gene”
@@susanlangley4294 I was gonna say almost the same thing! I love him, and have you tried his BBQ recipes?
The sultans keep their most priced onion on their head so nobody can steal it
Wtf
It's a kafan, a fabric to cover their bodies when they died, to reminds them that they too will perish and die to give the Sultan a sense of humility
@@sirsnakespeare As the majority of their other baseless beliefs, nothing to do with Islām or the sunnah of Muḥammad ﷺ
@@CGJUGO80 did i say it is Sunnah or from Qur'an ? Stop putting words in my mouth, beside it's just a cultural thing
I read somewhere that it's some kind of fabric to cover their bodies when they died
Much love and respect to the beautiful land of Turkey and the amazing people of the great land!
🇵🇰❤️🇹🇷
Always remember your brotherly nation of Pakistan is standing shoulder to shoulder with you.
You also stand should to shoulder with China while they genocide turks
Pakistanis and Turks will always be brothers/sisters 🇦🇿🇵🇰🇹🇷
@@salimdin5803NO.
I clicked on this video, with the expectation that most historical facts would be false like saying that baklava and dolma is greek... finally this video is talking straight up facts, even the word “dolma” is turkish and comes from “doldurmak” which means filling , so who ever is claiming it as theirs can fight me
Nobody dared lol
Caciki, Dolmaki, Balavaki..etc add "ki" to Turkish foods and make them greek lol
Nobody careki.. unfortunatellyki.. ahaha
Ok but you have to consider that Greece and many other Balkan countries where under the ottoman empire. All the foods mixed together. Yes they are Turkish. But they are Greek too. They are part of the culture and you can't deny that. Also don't you think it's funny that dolma was liked and supposedly "created" by the ottoman empire right after they took over Constantinople?🤔🤔
@@soniapl2120 what does dolma means in your language? Dolma is a %100 Turkish word. Do you understand what I mean? Baklava is an Arabic word and you guys claim it's yours. Claiming it's being part of culture is different claiming it belongs to your culture honey. Yoğurt is a Turkish food and the root is "Yoğurmak" which means kneading. Because old Asian Turks were kneading milk to get Yoğurt. And a Turkish man who escaped Turkey to Greece got the name rights for your country but you claim it's yours. What about this?
@@talialee6364 have you ever considered that because Greeks where under the ottoman empire, the food is going to take a Turkish name?We werent free. Of course they are not going to name it with a greek name. And Greeks don't claim that it's theirs. What I see is Turkish people claiming everything. And for fucks sake you can't claim yogurt. It's the simplest thing and Greeks have a greek name for it, we just use the Turkish root because we where under the ottoman empire FOR 400 YEARS. It's not Turkish. Honey 😒 We don't claim we created it but it's part of our culture so it's as greek as it is Turkish. Get over it
Once you fall in love with Turkey's foods, forget about the other countries. Everything is tasty here...
I don’t think challenging the ego’s of Indian’s cuisine is a good idea my friend
Same for all cultures so no need to argue with the Persians and/or Indians who think they have invented everything on the world (not only food).
*The most valued onion was always kept on the head.*
Which was the style at the time
Was looking for this comment
Jokes aside,the "onion" turban is basically just coffin cloth wrapped around a crown.
@@tasinal-hassan8268 what really?!
@@claudius3359 Yes.
In addition, sultan had a large group of staff, whose duty is, carrying ice inside insulated barrels from the peak of mountains, even in the middle of summer, they were enjoying cold drinks, when refrigerator were not invented...
They just got busy in luxury and worldly life. That's why they lost touch of reality and competiveness.., the result was stagnation.
I had many of these dishes being a duel citizen British American with living in both Countries since birth a few times. During my years in Europe is where I had many of the dishes in your video. My absolute favorite is the Donner kebab. They have something similar in America yes but it is much thinner in both the actual thickness and in width. It is prepped slightly as well. I miss it loads actually.
This has got to be the most mouth-watering episode of Weird History I’ve ever watched.
Good video, now I want to eat Turkish food.
Next time you could make a similar video about the Chinese emperors or the French kings in Versailles, or about Renaissance Italy. Renaissance in our country was not only a period of great art and cultural flowering, but also of culinary experiments.
2:03 the man's taking a selfie while he's cooking . NICE
8:00 Mehmed II the Conqueror is the only sultan that have loved seafood and eaten it usually.
thanks for sharing fun fact
A lot of people don’t know but they have a huge influence on Mexican Gastronomy.
There is a big population from Lebanon that migrated to Mexico in the early 19 century, bringing their culture and traditional cuisine which gave birth to a lot of traditional Mexican dishes.
You got the message though
Mexico did not even exist nearly up until the last quarter of the Empire. You know that right ?
The döner kebab invented in turkey (the original kebabs were invented in the Levant) was brought by Lebanese emigrants to todays Mexico and is known as Taco today
@marco polo Lebanese where ottomans because ottoman is not an ethnicity. The rulers where Turks and yes Turks =\ Lebanese.
Before the Turks settled in Asia Minor, Turkic “cuisine” basically consisted of horse-meat and fermented mare’s milk. Ottoman imperial cuisine, on the other hand, was probably the most varied and elaborate mixture of foods and dishes ever to exist as a unified culinary entity up to the 20th century; it was, however, “Turkish” in name only: the cuisine of the Ottoman Court was essentially an amalgam of the imperial cuisines of Persia and Byzantium; over time, it also adopted many elements from the ethnic culinary traditions of the wide array of cultures from both within and beyond the borders of the Empire: Greek, Balkan, Levantine, Egyptian, Berber, Arabian, Armenian, Caucasian, Venetian, Genoese, Florentine, Catalan, and others.
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Turks call Sherbet Sharbat. It's pronounced differently. Should have included Turkish Delight, or Rahat Lokum as well. Sarma in Croatia is made with cabbage leaves. The Ottoman empire had a major impact on the food and culture of Croatia
One of my Croatian friends also called Lokum as Rahat Lokum and I just couldn’t understand why. Rahat means “Relax” and probably in this context it is just the brand of the lokum (which is not even well known in Turkey). So: Turkish Delight = Lokum and that’s it!
@@ninetailedfoxie That is actually Rahat ul-hulküm which means 'Boğaz Rahatlatan' in Arabic., not a maker or a brand name. Became rahat lokum over the years.
@@LeylaOzden-fc1bi wow her gun yeni bir bilgi :) thank you very much for this info, I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it and I am from the city of lokum, Safranbolu 😁 thanks!
@@ninetailedfoxie Rica ederim.
TIL Sherbet in America is sorbet.. In New Zealand its basically powdered tangy flavoured candy.
These are still pillars if the Algerian cuisine till date.
Tunisian as well, especially börek, boza and ayran
@@queendido2276 Dude, Ayran and yogurt were invented by Turks :d
@@Estellllll yeah and the Turks invaded Tunisia, so it's no surprise that some of our food is influenced by Turkish cuisine right ?
Turkish cuisine is mixed with Mediterranean and Middle Eastern culture which makes it unique and really tasteful!
I write this comment while having my Turkish coffee lol
And also central asian! Thats where we originally come from
Middle eatern culture is inspired by the ottoman empire it lasted 400 years not the other way around
These are the videos I used to be bored watching in class but now I enjoy them.
God I can’t stop myself! We have the most beautiful and delicious cuisine in the world!
I just bought a new ottoman from IKEA. It was on sale too. It's hard to believe that a foot-stool could be so powerful.
I got an IKEA add before the video lmao
Bulgaria loves Ayran, Boza, Borek, Baklava, Sarmi
You drink Ayran?
@@omarsener8491 we are all average ayran enjoyers 😎👊
@Weird History Can you possibly do a video on the Chaldean people one day?
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I'm from Bulgaria and why are those dishes the same as those my grandma prepares :D :D :D
Cuz ottoman ruled bulgaria and all of balkans.
OMG, don't you know your country used to be under the Ottoman empire
Both of my parents are Bulgarian and I was born in turkey,does that mean I get to enjoy these 2 times :p
Cause ottaman ruled Bulgaria