To prepare the burek, start with the phyllo dough: in a bowl, pour the flour, salt (1), vinegar (2), and oil (3). Knead with your hands, gradually adding the water (4). Once all the ingredients are ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This is my second attempt to publish a burek recipe in the magazine, the first having fallen apart (quite ...

Pastry chef Alida Malushi moved to New Jersey 30 years ago, but if she closes her eyes and pictures the wood-burning stove in her family’s house in Kosovo, where she grew up, she can still smell the ...

Ariana Malushi wanted to learn how to make traditional Albanian food after her grandmother Magbule passed away in November 2017. So approached her aunt, Alida Malushi, to learn. On Sundays, the duo ...

On a holiday to Istria, Croatia, we enjoyed a Baltic pastry called burek. Some versions are filled with cooked meat, but I especially enjoyed the cheese pastries, shaped like a snail and with filo as ...

Mak European Delicatessens is more than just a grocery store. Nestled on the side of a nondescript plaza off the Don Valley Parkway, the shop serves as a community hub for Canadian immigrants that ...