LET’S MAKE SHAWARMA. food travels and did you know The original technique comes from the Ottoman Empire, where stacking meat on a vertical spit started in what’s now modern-day Turkey. They called it çevirme basically “turning” because the meat slowly rotates and roasts. As that idea spread across the Middle East, North Africa, and the Balkans, each place put its own spin on it. But it’s in the Levant especially Lebanon where shawarma really became what we know today. The spice blends got warmer