{"id":26263,"date":"2018-03-29T11:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T11:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=26263"},"modified":"2018-03-29T11:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T11:50:55","slug":"turkish-chefs-savor-sweet-success-with-world-record-baklava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/turkish-chefs-savor-sweet-success-with-world-record-baklava\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish chefs savor sweet success with world record baklava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of chefs in Turkey claimed a world record for the largest baklava on Thursday with a giant tray of the pastry dessert weighing over half a ton. The giant baklava was presented at a \u201cGastronomy Summit\u201d in Ankara, where dozens of visitors clamoured for a piece. Mehmet Kanbur, who led the group of 14 chefs and is also the head of Turkey\u2019s Mado patisserie chain, said the baklava weighed 518 kilos \u2013 more than doubling the previous record \u2013 and had been in the works for six months. The feat was confirmed by a Guinness World Records official who monitored the event by video link, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Baklava, whose origin is disputed between Turkey and Greece, is prepared with fresh pistachios or walnuts and a glistening honey glaze on top of the puffed pastry. \u201cThis is, of course, Turkey\u2019s achievement, Turkey\u2019s baklava,\u201d Kanbur said. \u201cAs you know Turkish people are born eating sweets and die eating sweets\u2026 This is what we say to the whole world: eat sweet, talk sweet,\u201d Kanbur said. \u201cThis record is a sweet message to the world. Let\u2019s not talk fighting, let\u2019s talk sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of chefs in Turkey claimed a world record for the largest baklava on Thursday with a giant tray of the pastry dessert weighing over half a ton. The giant baklava was presented at a \u201cGastronomy Summit\u201d in Ankara, where dozens of visitors clamoured for a piece. Mehmet Kanbur, who led the group of [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26265,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26263\/revisions\/26265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}