Your Most Intimate Introduction to Turkish Food and Culture
In summer the sky over Istanbul is the clearest, the Boshorus is the bluest and the days are the longest. Who would not want to be here on such wonderful time? Only that the brightest sun and the temperature hitting 35C usually come as a part of the tour package. Feeling hot and tired hardly [...]
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One of the dearest memories brought home from Istanbul (often packed in boxes and eaten away quickly) is the taste of baklava, a syrupy sweet made with numerous layers of paper-thin dough, or yufka, brushed with butter and sprinkled with honey and ground pistachio, hazelnut or walnut. It is no surprise that so many countries [...]
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The decision to go to Istanbul for a food weekend came very naturally – after weeks of hard work I needed a bit of happiness and a lot of good food. The guy who picked me up at the airport asked only two questions: “First time here?” and “What is your favorite food in Istanbul?” [...]
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