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By David Dale and Somer Sivrioglu
Published 2015
When I say thin-crust pizza is Italy’s answer to lahmacun (pronounced ‘lahmahjun’), I’m not trying to start a fight. The idea of putting spiced mince on a disc of dough would have occurred to human beings long before there were nations called Italy or Turkey—or for that matter Armenia, Greece or Syria—all of whom have claimed to be the originators of this addictive pastry. What we do know is that nowadays lahmacun is a speciality of the town of Şanlıurfa, in southeastern Tu