Dolma is a family of stuffed vegetable dishes in the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions such as Russia, Iran and the Caucasus and Central and South Asia. Perhaps the best-known is the grape-leaf dolma. Common vegetables to stuff include zucchini, eggplant, tomato and pepper. The stuffing may or may not include meat. Meat dolma are generally served warm, often with sauce; meatless ones are generally served cold, though meatless dolma are eaten both ways in Iran. Both are often eaten with yogurt.
Filling
The filling generally consists of rice, minced meat or gra...
Sarma is a dish of grape, cabbage or chard leaves rolled around a filling usually based on minced meat. It is found in the cuisines of the Balkans and Turkey as well as those of Central Europe, Central Asia and Middle East.
Etymology and names
Sarma means 'a wrapped thing' in Turkish, from the verb sarmak 'to wrap' or 'to roll'. Sarma may also be called yaprak dolması 'filled leaf' or simply dolma 'stuffed thing'. Dolma, which properly refers to stuffed vegetables, is often conflated with sarma.
Besides the savory dish of leaf-wrapped filling, sarma in Greek can also refer to sweet pa...
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He gave the definition/meaning of the word "blow".
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When I started to learn English, I was used to write phantasy instead of fantasy, and I was always corrected.
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Do people give to those words a different meaning?
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Punctuation marks are symbols that indicate the structure and organization of written language, as well as intonation and pauses to be observed when reading aloud.
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History
Origins
Before the early 20th century, most shirt collars were turned up in some manner. Men and women alike wore tall, stiff collars (as much as three inches tall), not unlike a taller version of a clerical collar, made either of starched linen, cotton, or lace. The writer H. G. Wells remarked in his 1902 book Kipps that these "made [the] neck quite sore and left a red mark under [the] ears." Between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, men's collars were ...
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