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The best baklava is in a Greek pastry shop in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, or at least it was 25 years ago.I recall that as soon as they opened up, everyone stopped making baklava. Why bake when you can buy something better. Now what made that baklava exceptional, other than the ingredients, was that it was not too sticky sweet. It's best that way.  No one mentions why the name baklava sounds so much like the city or town in Southern Russia called Bakalava. I would assume that it was first made there and then exported. :rolleyes: Now were the first inhabitants of Bakalava, Armenians or Turks?  Zenovia
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Cypriots have better desserts than Baklava.
I for one think the national dessert of Cyprus should be Daxtula, yummy delicious strips of dough with nuts inside which are then fried (the dough becomes like a canoli shell) and then soaked in rose flavored syrup.
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<No one mentions why the name baklava sounds so much like the city or town in Southern Russia called Bakalava. I would assume that it was first made there and then exported.
Now were the first inhabitants of Bakalava, Armenians or Turks?
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Zenovia, are you perhaps thinking of Balaklava a city raion of Sevastopil in the Crimea presently in Southern Ukraine not Russia?????
This is where the Bristish landed during the Crimean War in 1853-1856.
There were colonies of Greeks all around the Black Sea from pre-Christian times.
The city of Balaklava is associated with headgear which was called balaklava in Britain.
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Dear Miller you said: Zenovia, are you perhaps thinking of Balaklava a city raion of Sevastopil in the Crimea presently in Southern Ukraine not Russia?????
This is where the Bristish landed during the Crimean War in 1853-1856. I say: Hey, you're probably right.  Sounds like it, doesn't it? So then the Greeks invented it. Hee, hee, hee!  (I apologize for all my ignorance. I really don't know much about that part of the world). Zenovia
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ALL I CAN TELL YOU IS THE WOMEN AT ST GEORGES - MIDDLE EASTERN - MAKE A MEAN BAKALAVA. OH SO GOOD!!! SHOULD BE A LAW AGAINST SOMETHING THAT GOOOD
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The best baklava is to be found in that other great Greek city of Melbourne.
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Hey, ya'll what happened to the Byz Village idea, it was kicked around for several weeks and then disappeared. I would like to hear more. waiting for a reply......................mik.....s Bohom
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No one was that keen on living in Tasmania or the south Island of New Zealand.
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