A while ago, I received a request for a syrup cake recipe. And quite rightly so: this simply could not be a Middle Eastern food website...

Vegetarians do not have an easy time in Turkey. Turks love their meat, and you have to work a little harder to find non-meat meals that...

This is such a different, unique dessert. Sort of like a sweet gozleme, it is often eaten for breakfast in Gaziantep, the region of its...

New Year’s Eve is a special time in Turkey. Families get together, even if they have to travel a long way, and share a feast as they see...

I think this pilav will always be a little bit special to me. After an episode of severe food poisoning, damage to my stomach lining, and...

I had never eaten a fresh anchovy before I came to Turkey. To me, anchovies were those salty things I asked to be taken off pizzas as a...

Regular readers may have noticed that over the summer I didn’t post quite as much as usual. I must confess there was a rather...

This week we experienced our first real cold snap of the season. We had really just been playing at autumn before, but this week the...

Turkey boasts a wide range of grains in the local diet– far more that what we typically see in the West. Possibly the most popular is...

Like most regions of Turkey, inner Anadolu has many recipes that are virtually unknown to the world outside. But not this recipe....