Germany's Big Business of Doner Goes High Tech

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal takes a further look at the big business of doner, visiting a trade fair devoted just to this fast growing industry, in which Germany has now become a heavy weight player, producing some 400 million tons of meat cylinders a day and sending them out all over Europe. Naturally, big business breeds innovation, with the best example being the somewhat terrifying "doner robot," a machine does away with centuries of tradition and lets for a machine, rather than a knife-wielding mustachioed man, slice the doner. The WSJ, meanwhile, found all kinds of interesting new products at the fair, such as the curiously named "Doner Streaker," a truck specifically designed to deliver the logs of meat without them rolling around.  

The full article can be found here, while an Istanbul Eats roundup of where to eat the best doner in Istanbul can be found here.