Cutting into the burek at Blend’s in Dongan Hills. Photo: Alison Viana Cutting into the burek at Blend’s in Dongan Hills. Photo: Alison Viana Scrolling through TikTok recently, I came across a short ...

Sometimes, watching a dish being made is as much fun as eating it. Given the deliciousness of Jasenko Osmic’s burek — a steaming, meat-and-potato-stuffed pastry — that’s an awful lot of fun. At Balkan ...

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 ...

Getting burek pastry paper-thin takes a practised hand, but this baker says you can also get away with stretching it on the kitchen bench. Roman Urosevski is used to early mornings. At 15, he left ...

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 ...

From the very first time I ate burek - a usually savory and almost always flaky stuffed pastry prominent in the Balkans - it has been, hands down, one of my favorite street snacks. I've been putting ...

According to the first records mentioning burek in 1498, first burek in Serbia had been made in Niš, and the first burek maker was a Turkish baker called Mehmed Oğlu. Nowadays Niš is a host to the ...

The Union Bakery is a small, unassuming bakery on Windsor's east side. Multiple signs on the Tecumseh Road building proclaim their signature item: burek. "It's a specialty of some Turkish people, and ...