Every single time I visit Topkapı palace I think I am back to India touring the palaces of the once-mighty maharajas. Intricately carved marble, symphony of the floral and geometrical patterns on the walls, thrones laid with mother-of-pearl, oversized jackets made of the fine handwoven silk embroidered with gold. Those displayed at the spacious courtyards of the Topkapı palace in Istanbul are not so different from the exhibits at the maharaja palaces in Rajasthan. Who is to blame for these similarities - the Mughals, the Seljuqs or the Persians before anybody else?
Turkish Carrot Bars (Cezerye)
