No, we are not going to Hatay, yet it is another colorful pazar in İzmir. Up at the hills of İzmir, Hatay Pazarı was set up on Thursdays. Kekik 2 kinds -oregano and thyme-, karabaş -lavandula stoechas- on the right corner, for making tea… the locals say that it is good for…
One morning, I rushed in the restaurant asking for ribs as if I was starving, Şeref Usta told me to come back at 11.30am, hence it is still cooking… But the büryan was ready, hanging on the hooks, still warm, the fats dripping, calling my name. But I wanted to…
I do not about know your house, but sure mine does not have two lovely ladies sitting infront making swiss chard dolma… They giggled when I took their picture, invited me over for dinner. In Anadolu, it is very common to gather around for preparing food, gossiping about the latest…
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…
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…
Does not matter where I travel to, the first thing I google is a decent coffee stop. The Barn, was my stop, a coffee base in Berlin. Keen and obsessed with their coffee beans and brewing methods, coffee geeks, as we know it. Love it. We tried everything on the…
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.
You see the writing on the door.. always open… Roasting Plant’s display in the good old NYC.
Funny enough my friends around me have been asking me to make kısır for them, like all my life… It started in high school as far as I remember, being alone at home frequently, I had the whole gang at home shooting tequilas, singing and sometimes studying. Those study days…