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[edit] Size

Size? --Menchi (Talk)â 03:44, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

you choose the size. not smaller than 4-5 cm. Optim 04:02, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I am pretty sure that this is a Turkish sweet (although it may well be available in Greece as well). Can anyone confirm this?

As with many aspects of shared Greek/Turkish culture, it depends on who you ask. It seems to have already been common in both Greek and Turkish communities under the Ottomans, so people argue about which community invented it, or whether it already existed in Byzantine times, or whether it was borrowed from the Arabs instead, etc., etc. --Delirium 06:42, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

The Oxford Companion to Food discusses lokma/loukouma in its jalebi article. They are also known in Iran as zulabiya and are given to poor people at Ramadan (a custom that also exists in Turkey for Lokma -- is there anything parallel in Greece? I don't know). The name lokma itself, as documented in the article, is Arabic, and the OCF reports that "some believe that the somewhat similar [to jalebi] Arabic luqmat el qadi... may be the original version". The name jalebi also apparently ultimately comes from Arabic zalabiya, but my Arabic dictionary lists zalaabiyah as just 'a kind of doughnut' and doesn't refer it to an Arabic root. This, then, is one of those foods found all the way from the Balkans to India (documented in 1450) via Anatolia, the Levant, the Fertile Crescent (al-Baghdadi describes them in the 13th century), and Iran. As a guess, I'd think its origins are probably somewhere in the central area (Levant or Persia), but I don't have any sources supporting that. Then there are sfingi and zeppole.... --Macrakis 14:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sfingi and zeppole

The redirect from sfinges comes here. Shouldn't go to zeppole? I don't know how to change it, or I would. 76.215.2.140 23:51, 7 February 2007 (UTC)