Doner kebab
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Doner kebab or döner kebab is a Turkish dish made of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie. Seasoned meat stacked in the shape of an inverted cone is turned slowly on the rotisserie, next to a vertical
Döner kebab
The earliest known photo of döner, by James Robertson, 1855, Ottoman Empire
Döner seller at work in Bursa
İskender or "Bursa kebabı"
Shawarma
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Shawarma is a popular street food in the Middle East that originated in the Levant during the Ottoman Empire. It consists of meat cut into thin slices, stacked in an inverted cone, and roasted on a sl
Doner kebab
…from the outer layer of the meat as it cooks. The vertical rotisserie was invented in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire, and dishes such as the Arab shawarma, Greek gyros, Greek-Canadian donair, and Mexican al pastor are derived from the rotisserie technique of this dish. The modern sandwich variant of doner…
Shawarma meat on a rotating vertical spit, next to flatbreads
Shawarma preparation in Lebanon, 1950
Chicken and lamb shawarma
Nigerian shawarma, with hot dogs to the side