So where have I been lately? 🧳 And what have I been eating? 🍽️
I was in Türkiye 🇹🇷 for a week in late September and in Macedonia 🇲🇰 last week. Bulgaria 🇧🇬 awaits this week.
💥 And what surprisingly was the thing that most caught my attention?
How popular the Latin American cake Tres leches is in the Balkans and Türkiye, where it's known as "trileche".
📺 If you believe Wikipedia (you shouldn't), trileche came to the Balkans because Balkan chefs and housewives reverse-engineered the dish after seeing it on Latin American soap operas in the 1990s. But seriously, have you ever seen tres leches, or much food for that matter, feature so heavily on telenovelas to prompt such a move?
The real story of how trileche became a Balkan food phenomenon can be found here https://kosovotwopointzero.com/en/ignazios-spell/
You have to hand it to the Albanians 🇦🇱, who are the confectioners of the Balkans and beyond.
Who's a fan of tres leches/trileche?
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