"Filo is the Greek name for a dough of many paper-thin layers separated by films of butter [...] Although known to Europeans and North Americans by a Greek name, the dough (Anm.: Blätterteig) is clearly of Turkish origin. The medieval nomad Turks had an obsessive interest in making layered bread, possibly in emulation of the thick oven breads of city people. As early as the 11th century, a dictionary of Turkish dialects (Diwan Lughat al-Turk) recorded pleated/folded bread as one meaning of the word yuvgha, which is related to the word (yufka) which means a single sheet of file in modern Turkish. This love of layering continues among the Turks of Central Asia. [...] The idea of making the sheets paper thins is a later development.The Azerbaijanis make the usual sort of baklava with 50 or so layers of filo, but they also make a pastry called Baki pakhlavasi (Baku-style baklava) using ordinary noodle paste instead of filo. This may represent the earliest form of baklava, resulting form the Turkish nomads adapting their concept of layered bread - developed in the absence of ovens. If this is so, baklava actually pre-dated filo, and the paper-thin pastry we know today was probably an innovation of the Ottoman sultan's kitchens at Topkapi palace in Istanbul. There is an established connection between the Topkapi kitchens and baklava; on the 15th of Ramadan every year, the Janissary troops stationed in Istanbul used to march to the palace, where every regiment was presented with two trays of baklava. They would march back to their barracks in what was known as the Baklava Procession."
Quelle: Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson, Oxford University Press, 1999, Seite 299.
zum thema baklava
die griechen glauben dass sie tsatsiki erfunden hätten und baklava aber kein grieche kommt dabei auf die idee dass sowohl baklava als auch tsatsiki keine griechischen wörter sind. und das interessante ist. im balkan ist baklava speziell bosnien traditionell weitaus stärker verbreitet als in griechenland
die griechen haben kulturgüter geklaut und den namen geändert, denn alles andere wäre kulturdiebstahl.
die griechen werden natürlich versuchen aber gegen die historischen fakten können sie nichts ausrichten. so verbreitet ist baklava in griechenland nicht mal im gegensatz zu türkei, wo jede mutter das rezept kennt.
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