Sandwiches

The döner kebab, that grilled fast-food sandwich which is the gastronomic equivalent of an American hamburger in many European cities, is under fire.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel cut and ate the iconic Turkish döner kebab at an event in the capital Berlin on June 27, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Merkel was participating in a festival hosted by the Association of Medium-sized Enterprises, during which she visited a Turkish döner producer's stand.   

In a bid to banish stereotypes of late-night greasy fast food, Turkish chefs are trying to burnish their image by showcasing the culinary riches the country has to offer. 

The Athens Street Food Festival is returning for a second outing this year, in which a wide variety of mouthwatering street food will be showcased at the Palio Amaksostasio in Gazi over the course of three three-day weekends in May (May 5-7, 12-14 and 19-21). Festival-goers will be welcome to try delicious food not only from various regions around Greece, but also around the world.

The year 2016 has been a year that we wish to forget in many ways, but I do try to look at the brighter side and remember fondly some of its memorable moments and morsels. This year most of the culinary highlights each month were strangely interwoven with other events or coincidences that happened later in the year.

A Sydney dessert bar has introduced a saccharin equivalent of the doner kebab, complete with a rotating white and milk chocolate rotisserie, which is shaved as it spins.

Dulwich Hill’s Tella Balls Dessert Bar, which is best known for their over-the-top doughnut-topped tella ball milkshakes, is calling their new creation the “tellabab”.

Readers of news website Radikal have selected Turkey’s top restaurants to eat doner kebab - a Turkish dish made of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, normally lamb but sometimes beef or chicken. Here is the list

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has kept up with tradition and enjoyed Turkish döner as the eurozone grappled with the deepening Greece crisis

Who says the gyro market is cooling down in the States, if anything the craze seems to be developing into a permanent fixture on US diners’ plates.
Illinois-based Grecian Delight Foods has emerged as one of the fastest growing Greek ethnic food producers in the United States, now holding some 40% of the share of the gyros market in the major market.

Thus wrote an Islamist columnist after the attacks in the French capital. In a related story, his newspaper used the word terror in quotation marks, clearly implying that it disagreed that the attacks in Paris were acts of terror.