00:03What if one of the world's most famous street foods was actually invented on the battlefield?
00:08A dish eaten today in cities from Istanbul to Hyderabad, from Berlin to New York City,
00:14started as simple pieces of meat roasted over open fire.
00:18This is the story of the kebab.
00:24At its simplest, a kebab is meat cooked over fire.
00:27Usually, lamb, beef or chicken cut into pieces, skewered and grilled.
00:33The word itself comes from the Persian kab, meaning roasted or charred meat.
00:37But the story of kebab goes back much further.
00:44Humans have been roasting meat over fire for hundreds of thousands of years.
00:48But the earliest written descriptions of kebab appeared in medieval Middle Eastern and Persian cooking traditions.
00:53Food historians believe the dish developed among nomadic tribes of Central Asia,
00:58who cooked small pieces of meat over open fires during travel.
01:06According to legend, medieval soldiers grilled meat on their swords over campfires.
01:11The result?
01:12A smoky, portable nail that slowly evolved into the kebab we know today.
01:21Kebabs truly flourished during the era of the Ottoman Empire.
01:25Across the Middle East and Anatolia, grilled meat became a culinary art.
01:30Royal kitchens experimented with spices, marinades and techniques transforming kebab from survival food into a sophisticated dish.
01:42Kebabs arrived in the Indian subcontinent with the Mughal Empire.
01:46Mughal chefs combine Persian cooking styles with Indian spices and techniques.
01:50The result?
01:51Some of the world's most famous kebabs, including those from Lucknow and Hyderabad.
02:02Today, there are hundreds of kebab varieties across the world.
02:06The classic shish kebab is simply chunks of meat crelled on skewers.
02:10The famous dinner kebab features meat stacked on a rotating vertical split.
02:14In South Asia, you find seek kebab, spiced minced meat cooked on long skewers.
02:19And the legendary tanbe kebab from Lucknow, so soft it almost melts in your mouth.
02:24Migration carried kebabs far beyond the Middle East.
02:27In Europe, Turkish immigrants turned the mer kebab into one of the most popular fast foods.
02:33Today, cities like Berlin sell millions of kebabs every year.
02:36From street stalls to fine dining, kebab became a global food phenomenon.
02:41From ancient campfires to modern street food empires, the kebab isn't just a dish.
02:47It's thousands of years of food history on a stick.
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