If you are still with me (and I don’t know how I have deserved such loyalty being a lousy food blogger), you have noticed that last year this space was not too lively. Most of my cooking remained behind the scenes at my restaurant kitchen, and I kept most of the thoughts to myself. Now I can tell the truth: after we left Istanbul I knew my cooking, teaching and this blog were not going to be same. Posting my Aegean updates on the blog called Delicious Istanbul did not make sense, and my heart was not fully into the Turkish vegetarian cooking you know me for. And yet I felt I had not arrived to my next destination. The transition took a long year and a half, but finally I am ready for the next step. Will you come along?

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