Sadly, the world sees döner kebap (also known by the Greek word gyro or the Arabic word shawarma) as the pinnacle of Turkey’s cooking culture. Tourists in Turkey are often told that this vertical way of grilling sliced meat was invented by the Iskender family in the 1860s in the town of Bursa as a way to avoid fat dripping onto the coals and creating a lot of smoke. In one tale we hear that Mr Iskender skewered slices of meat on his sword and stuck it in the ground n