Kuru Yemiş
Kuru yemiş (KOO-roo
yeh-meesh) means "dried
fruits." Turkey grows a
lot of wonderful fruit. To preserve and
store it in the days before tin
cans and refrigeration, much
of it was dried.
Dried fruit is convenient! No
cans or packages to open or dispose
of, no need for refrigeration.
Just add mouth!
Plums, figs, dates, apricots,
apples...even blackberries and
other berries which are pressed
and dried into sheets ("fruit
leather"), the
stuff you see right at the bottom
center of this photo, which was
taken in Istanbul's Egyptian
(Spice) Market in Eminönü.
Don't forget the nuts:
high protein, high flavor, low
maintenance: walnuts, almonds,
peanuts, pistachios and of course hazelnuts (filberts),
of which Turkey's Black
Sea coast furnishes half
the world supply. |
