• Diet and Health
    • As modernity takes hold, traditions are falling to one side. Spirituality as a guide for conduct in ...
  • Food and Spirituality
    • Food and dietary practices have always played an important part in all religions. Among them, Islam ...
  • Food Protocol for the Culturally Correct
    • Eating is taken very seriously in Turkey. It is inconceivable for the household members to eat alone ...
  • Beverages
    • Beyond Turkish Coffee and "Ayran" Volumes have been written about the Turkish coffee; its history, ...
  • Beyond Baklava
    • The most well-known sweets associated with Turkish Cuisine are Turkish Delight, and "baklava," givin ...
  • Sea Food
    • Sea Food Four seas (the Black Sea, Marmara Sea, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean) surround the Turk ...
  • Meze Dishes
    • In Turkey, despite the Islamic prohibition against wine and anything alcoholic, there is a rich trad ...
  • Vegetables
    • Along with grains, vegetables are also consumed in large quantities in the Turkish diet. The simples ...
  • Grilled Meats
    • "Kebab" is another category of food which, like the borek, is typically Turkish dating back to the t ...
  • Grains: Bread to Borek
    • The foundation of Turkish food is, if anything, the dough made of wheat flour. Besides "ekmek" - the ...
  • Great - Good Places
    • A survey of types of dishes according to their ingredients, may be helpful to explain the basic stru ...
  • Ottoman Cuisine
    • The importance of culinary art for the Ottoman Sultans is evident to every visitor of Topkapi Palace ...
  • Nurturing Environment
    • Early historical documents show that the basic structure of the Turkish Cuisine was already establis ...
  • Prologue
    • "Do not dismiss the dish saying that it is just, simply food. The blessed thing is an entire civiliz ...