National Baklava Day
The pastry that every culture along the Silk Road claims and everyone who has eaten it is grateful for.
National Baklava Day on November 17 celebrates one of the great pastries of the world: layers of paper-thin phyllo dough brushed with butter, filled with chopped nuts, baked until golden, and soaked in a sugar syrup or honey. Baklava appears in the cuisines of Turkey, Greece, Lebanon, Syria, Israel,