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Some recipes demand grape vine leaf, but I never eat not once in my whole life, can't really name a dish with that, but I know the leaf had to be chosen very carefully, needs to be large but cannot be too old, it has to be healthy and so on.
Frankly part of our cuisine overlaps with Turkish, due to 150 years of Ottoman peace keeping operation in the third of our country, quiet some ingredients was introduced during that era and later neighbourhood. Right now I'm not sure what exactly, maybe will look it up.
I remember a story tho, about a pasha of Buda, who sneaked out from the castle time to times in disguise to drink some wine secretly. During one such occasion he befriended a commoner whom he made a blood pact with. They cut their fingers and spilled their blood in as cup of wine and both drank from it, creating a blood brotherhood between them. This bond comes with obligations ofc from both sides. Sadly I can't recall the end of the story or if there's any - it should have - I also don't know why made them to create this pact.