Bafra Pidesi
Not a round flatbread but a long sealed boat, often near ninety centimetres, the Bafra pidesi bakes beef inside thin crisp dough and butters it hot: a protected Black Sea name since 2009.
Not a round flatbread but a long sealed boat, often near ninety centimetres, the Bafra pidesi bakes beef inside thin crisp dough and butters it hot: a protected Black Sea name since 2009.
Açık means open, and a pide is open almost by default, so the word is a retronym: the rimmed boat of dough with its topping baked open needs a name only because the Black Sea seals its kapalı shut.