Cooking Alaturka: Cooking Class

Ms Eveline Zoutendijk of Istanbul offers easy, enjoyable, very informative and fun half-day Turkish cooking classes to foreign visitors at her new restaurant on Akbiyik Caddesi in the heart of Sultanahmet's hotel district.

(Chef Zoutendijk used to give classes at Istanbul's Hotel Sarniç, but she has now moved to her own location and no longer has any connection with the hotel.)

Class participants meet at 10:30 am at the Cooking Alaturka Restaurant at Akbiyik Caddesi No. 72a (map), in Sultanahmet just off the Hippodrome behind the Blue Mosque, for coffee and a general introduction to Turkish cuisine.

By 11:00 am you're in the special culinary-course mutfak (kitchen). You're ready to help the master chef prepare the midday meal using the best seasonal market ingredients. Step-by-step instructions, and many willing hands, produce a delicious and varied collection of dishes.

As soon as all is ready, you sit down to luncheon and enjoy your handiwork, with genial comments and comparisons all around. Afiyet olsun! (Enjoy your meal!)

By 14:30 (2:30 pm), luncheon is usually over, the last questions asked and answered, the final pointers and recommendations conveyed, and you're on your way to further explorations of Istanbul.

Turkish cuisine is no longer an exotic mystery, but an open door for further discovery.

Classes are held most days: email Ms Zoutendijk to make arrangements and mention your wish to participate, and to confirm the date, time and fee (60 euros per person, which includes the complete lunch, with drinks).

When you contact Ms Zoutendijk, be sure to mention TTP. Here's why.

Cooking Alaturka
Akbiyik Caddesi No. 72a
Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey
www.cookingalaturka.com
ttp@cookingalaturka.com
Tel: +90 (212) 458 5919
Fax: +90 (212) 458 5999
Mobile: +90 (536) 338 0896

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Above, Eveline Zoutendijk and chef of Cooking Alaturka.
Below, what's cooking?
Bottom, neo-chefs celebrate.

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