OK so this looks like abdominal fat and heart disease on a plate, but actually it was my dinner. Those are fried potatoes covered with melted cheese, fried liver-and-onion patties, a bowl of cabbage and sliced carrots (basically coleslaw without the mayo), and a glass of kefir, which is a kind of yogurt-like milk product (it's actually healthy). This amazingly mono-color dinner was delicious in a gluttonous, fatty sort of way, but I can already feel the cholesterol accumulating in my heart. Yum.
AHA finally I can be useful!!! Kefir is originally a Turkish drink, it was served with really spicy dishes to foreigners and visitors who couldn't handle that spicier dishes. (Historically Turkish food was more similar to Indian and Middle Eastern food, and used much more potent spices!!
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----also it was spread through routes of central Asia to the Caucuses....which is why people tend to think it originated in the Caucuses. Of course I read this in a Turkish history of food book, so take it with a grain of salt---or a glass of kefir! Bahaha i'm so funny.
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