Sweets of Middle and Far East (such as baklava) gradually began to find their way into western cuisines starting from the 14th and 15th centuries; , there are significant differences between eastern and western cuisines in the variety and consumption of sweets. in the West sweets tend to be light and are served at the end of the meal, in the East they are served at any hour of the day and are fragrant and flavourful and drenched in syrup. many theories have been put forward concerning the invention of baklava, none is certain. their nomadic lifestyle, the Turks of Central Asia carried their cooking equipment with them on horseback. The only stove that could be carried on the back of a horse was a thin metal brazier, and the food prepared on such a brazier had to be thin it would cook quickly.