This October 15 food holiday celebrates a traditional Middle Eastern method of cooking meats such as lamb, chicken, and beef.
Likely originating among 19th century Ottomans in what is now Turkey, “shawarma” derives from a Turkish word, “çevirme,” which means “turning.”
Shawarma, also spelled shawurma or shawerma, is prepared from thin cuts of meat stacked in a cone-like shape on a vertical rotisserie.