Lor Pistachio Halva Loaf, Turkish 3kg (6.6lb)

Lor Pistachio Halva Loaf 3kg is a large-format block of sesame halva with pistachio pieces throughout — the Turkish halva in the catering and household-crowd size, where the dense, crumbly, sesame-paste-and-sugar confection is studded with whole or split pistachio nuts and pressed into the large loaf format that Middle Eastern and Balkan confectionery shops sell by the slice. Lor is a Turkish confectionery producer, and their pistachio halva is produced in the tahini-halva tradition that Turkey has maintained as one of the country's defining sweet exports — the dense sesame confection that appears in Turkish shops, Greek delis, Balkan bakeries, and Middle Eastern grocery stores across the diaspora world as the universal sesame sweet of the Eastern Mediterranean. Halva in Turkish, Greek, Balkan, Russian, Israeli, and Iranian traditions is the default confection at religious celebrations, coffee houses, and sweet shops: sliced thin and served with strong coffee, present at funerals and holidays alike, a confection so culturally distributed that it belongs to no single table but to all of them simultaneously. Slice thin beside Turkish coffee or espresso, set on a mezze plate alongside other Mediterranean sweets, or use the large format for catering a holiday gathering or celebration where a whole-loaf halva is the traditional sweet centrepiece.