Talk:Taboon bread

Please avoid too many categories

I notice that more national cuisine categories are being added gradually. The manual of style warns that too many categories making it harder, not easier, for users to navigate. At the moment there aren't too many, but if the numbers keep growing, I'm going to chop back to just the generic ones (Arab, Levantine, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean etc.). All the national categories will be no more than an extra keypress away as they will fall under one or more of these headings.--Peter cohen (talk) 14:43, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Belgium

Is the information about Belgium relevant? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.197.136.237 (talk) 23:22, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes. What it needs is information about elsewhere also, not for the Belgian stuff to be removed. -Oreo Priest ^talk 00:04, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Durum wheat

Does anyone know whether the Turkish term for this is at all related to the term durum wheat, or are they just false cognates or something like that? Pompous Trihedron (talk) 16:30, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Surely unrelated -- Turkish dürüm is from the verb dürmek 'to roll'. --Macrakis (talk) 20:04, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

as dürüm

As a native Turkish speaker I'd liketo add that the whole meal is called a dürüm, so the line under the photo should say "as dürüm" and not "in dürüm" since the bread itself is called lavaş. Also dürüm does not always contain döner kebab, perhaps it could be said "kebabs are wrapped as dürüm", say, Adana dürüm is not made of döner rather meat grilled on shish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.68.210.80 (talk) 11:46, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Taboon

This article says a 'taboon oven' is like an overturned wok, which makes it sound like a tava a.k.a. saç. But the tabun oven article describes it as a kind of large, closed, beehive-shaped oven. Which is it? --Macrakis (talk) 20:04, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

I wonder. I just read this article and found myself thinking, this sounds like what is called Saj bread in Arabic. ComhairleContaeThirnanOg (talk) 16:36, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Merge from dürüm

This recent edit merged the dürüm page into the taboon bread page. This was presumably based on the belief that dürüm is a kind of flatbread similar to taboon bread. But in fact dürüm refers to a kind of rolled sandwich. So unless there is some objection, I plan to restore the dürüm article and fill it out with more information. Thanks, --Emir Ali Enç (talk) 20:01, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Flour type

The article currently claims that this bread is made from chickpea flour. It also claims that this is the bread known in Israel as לאפה‎ (laffa). I don't think it can be both. The recipes I'm finding for laffa are for wheat breads, and I'm quite confident the ones I tasted on my last trip were as well. Some clarification is required in some direction. --Dfeuer (talk) 07:03, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

it's probably a confusion between laffa(made of wheat) to falaffel(made of chickpea flour) which is put sometimes in a laffa. מלא כל הארץ כבודי (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:43, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

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POV pushing and failed verification

The portion on Palestinian usage very clearly has more than one source, pretending it is just the 1874 travels of one person is beyond silly. Beyond that, the following statements all fail verification:

• It is popular in Israel sourced to this review of a restuarant which never says anything on general popularity, this dead link (where are you getting the dead links for new additions, seems odd tbh), but the source is archived. Unfortunately what it says is Shwarma, fine slices of grilled meat served in a pita or a lafa, a large, flat bread, is also very popular., that is that shawarma is popular.
• Bread similar to taboon bread has been made in Israel since ancient times - sourced to a book, no page number, no nothing.
• It is common at bakeries, and at food stands where it is mostly used to wrap shawarma, falafel, or hummus. - sourced to another deadlink (seriously, where are you pulling this from) also archived, but also not a reliable source being a hotel's information website.
• Taboon bread is also very commonly baked by Druze Israelis, who have two variants of it. The first cook the bread in a taboon and call it taboon bread, laffa, or Druze pita - sourced to something that does in fact say it is called a Druze pita, does not however remark on commonness.

I am again reverting the bogus additions, and the nonsensical claim that it only was an important part of Palestinian cuisine. nableezy - 19:28, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Additional failures:

• In the United Statss, taboon bread is often called laffa, the more common Israeli name for the bread sourced to this recipe that never once says anything about the United States or what it is commonly called and to this restuarant review that never once says anything about anything being often called anything else.
• and is commonly served at Israeli and other Middle Eastern restaurants around the country sourced to this restuarant review which says nothing about anything being commonly served anywhere.
• most notably at the restaurant Zahav by chef Michael Solomonov in Philadelphia among others sourced to this youtube video of somebody making the bread which both is not reliable for anything and says nothing about Mr Solomonov being the most notable maker of taboon bread, and to this interview with Mr Solomonov which again says nothing about him being the most notable baker of taboon bread.

All of this is also being removed. nableezy - 19:56, 3 October 2019 (UTC)