Just Now – Tire Kebabı
Tire kebabı, the butter is almost as good as the meat!
Food Photographs
Just Now – Kokoreç a.k.a Sarma
Today at lunch I had one of the best kokoreç dishes of my life… Post coming soon!
Büryan – at Bitlis, Turkey
It is around midnight, when the büryan ovens are light up in Bitlis. There is only smoke in the dark streets of the city. Bitlis has its own pace, like all the Anatolian cities. The büryan restaurants open at 5.00 a.m and close around 11.00 a.m. It is very hard…
Just Now – Büryan
The cracklings, the moist lamb, a piece of onion, a bite of hot chilies! A perfect lunch.
Get your shopping bags! Yalıkavak Pazarı
It is that time of the year. When the sun softly touches your back, a lovely wind carrying all the earthly and flowery smells. It is time to hit the road, to Aegean Coast, where all the hills are covered with daisies, edible wild greens, ladybugs, wild flowers… Yalıkavak pazarı…
Gazoz, as local as can get!
Gazoz! Before Coca Cola ruled the world and hacked Turkey, most of the cities in Turkey had their own soda pop brands. Mostly vanilla, some has orange, mandarin, cherry flavors as well. Like local Schweppes. All in glass, 200ml or 250ml bottles. I came across this one at Safranbolu, Kastamonu. Bağlar…
Kaymakçı Pando Amca! The one and only!
Breaks my heart to write about it… Pando Amca passed away at the age of 92. İstanbul lost one if her oldest esnaf’s. We lost an era… He will always be remembered. May he rest in peace. (April 11th, 2018) Unfortunately… Pando Amca was evicted from his little shop in…
Tables on the streets of Şanlıurfa
Şanlıurfa is a city that never sleeps, not for the partying though, for eating! The liver stalls go on 24-7. The famous ciğerciler -the liver grillers- yelling out or sitting in front of the mangal -the mini bbq-, chatting with their customers, scattered around the city, on the pavements. Şanlıurfa pepper…
Food Photo of the day – Grocery on wheels
The grocery men found time to have a tea or two, at he back of their freshly stacked grocery on wheels. A lovely spring day at Van, before the earthquake, when life was just … Hoping, life gets back to normal soon for all the people of Van.