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
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
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
Shawarma
…shawarma—grilling a vertical stack of meat slices and cutting it off as it cooks—first appeared during the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century in the form of döner kebab, which both the Greek gyros and the Levantine shawarma are derived from. The innovation of this technique is credited by Encyclopedia Britannica to a…
Döner kebab
The earliest known photo of döner, by James Robertson, 1855, Ottoman Empire
Döner seller at work in Bursa
İskender or "Bursa kebabı"