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meat spun into a vertical monument, then shaved down to glorious rubble.
means A Middle Eastern dish of seasoned meat stacked on a vertical spit, slow-roasted as it turns, then thinly shaved off and usually wrapped in flatbread with vegetables and sauce.
from From Levantine Arabic shāwarmā, borrowed from Ottoman Turkish çevirme, meaning 'turning' or 'rotation' — a perfect description of the meat revolving on its spit. The Turkish word comes from the verb çevirmek, 'to turn,' making it a close cousin of döner (Turkish for 'rotating') and the Greek gyros (literally 'turn'). Three cuisines, three languages, all naming the same dish after the one thing it never stops doing: spinning.
- ottoman roots
- Born from stacked döner kebab in 19th-century Turkey.
- gravity-assisted
- Cooks vertically so fat bastes the meat below.
- name meaning
- From Turkish çevirme, meaning to turn or rotate.
- avenger cameo
- Earned a post-credits scene in 2012's Avengers.
abu shawerm damascus — legendary syrian shawarma stand in damascus's old city, operating since 1950s
al reef bakery amman — iconic jordanian shawarma restaurant in amman, famous since 1960s for lamb shawarma