Meatball Nations: United in the Love of Kofte, Keftedes and Kebapches

Travel Blog  •  Joanna Kakissis  •  09.19.08 | 6:21 AM ET

imageSoutheastern Europe boasts something like 400 varieties of meatballs, according to Balkan Travellers. Albena Shkodrova looks at the beloved comfort food as served in Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and the former Yugoslav republics—but not after tweaking the United States for its lack of creativity with minced meat. Cue Josh White while visualizing Chef Boyardee.

Photo by fotoosvanrobin via Flickr (Creative Commons).

Tags: Food, News and Briefs

Joanna Kakissis's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among other publications. A contributor to the World Hum blog, she's currently a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder.


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