By Philip Chrysopoulos The word “souvlaki” is synonymous with Greek food, whether the term refers simply to grilled meat on a small wooden skewer or the soft pita bread stuffed with meat, tomatoes, onions, tzatziki, and French fries. Many would think that souvlaki is a type of fast or street food originating from the many years of Ottoman rule in Greece, but this is not true. Archaeological findings and writings clearly show that today’s souvlaki comes from the ancient Greeks . After all, the seat of the Ottoman Empire was on land that was Greek in ancient times. The origins of souvlaki as slices of meat grilled on a spit date back to ancient Greece. This food, known as obeliskos ( the diminutive of obelos – “ spit”), was even mentioned in the works of Aristophanes, Xenophon, Aristotle and others. A dish of bread stuffed with meat which resembles the way pita souvlaki is served today with pita bread was also attested to by Athenaeus in his “Deipnosophistae.” Researcher George
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