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Turkish cuisine is
now finding its proper place in the
culinary world.
Turkey is an agriculturally
rich country surrounded
by the sea—the perfect
situation to supply abundant, high-quality
ingredients for the kitchen and the
dining table.
Learning how to cook alla
Turca is one of the
most rewarding experiences of a
visit to Turkey, and may be the
most valuable and prized souvenir
you bring home with you—and
the one you will be proudest to
demonstrate to your friends. Here
are some Turkish cuisine tours
and lessons:
Cooking
Alaturka
Ms Eveline Zoutendijk, a Cordon
Bleu-educated European chef,
assisted by a professional Turkish
chef, offers delightful four-hour cooking
classes in the fully-equipped kitchen
of her new Cooking Alaturka
Restaurant
on Akbiyik
Caddesi in Sultanahmet, Istanbul. After
preparing a menu of Ottoman, traditional
Turkish and regional dishes, the
class sits down to enjoy them for lunch
with a glass of wine.
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Turkish Flavours
Half-day cooking courses in Istanbul,
chats with gourmet
experts, walking tours of the markets,
and
visits
to all the city's major points of
historical and cultural interest—in
short, all sorts of Turkish
Flavours.
For real devotees, there's even a 6-day
culinary tour of Istanbul,
including three half-day cooking
classes. More...
Turkish
Cuisine Tours
You can also learn about traditional
Turkish country cuisine in
Biblical
Cappadocia through
the programs of
Turkish
Heritage Travel, based
in
Göreme.
More...
Most Turkish dishes are admirably
simple and uncomplicated,
with one or perhaps two spices or
flavorings used in each dish. But
such simple cuisine requires fresh
ingredients and careful
preparation to succeed.
Turkish cuisine delights in variety,
from the dozens of different meze ("MEH-zeh," appetizers)
to the 40 different ways to prepare
aubergine/eggplant.
Although innovation used to be discouraged,
with recipes virtually written in stone,
creative Turkish chefs are now exploring
beyond the confines of the traditional
dishes and using a newfound
knowledge of the world's other great
cuisines to develop and enhance what
they learned from their mothers and
fathers.
Cooking
Alaturka
Turkish
Flavours 6-Day Culinary Tour of Istanbul
Turkish
Cooking Classes in Cappadocia
Turkish
Cuisine
Special
Interest Trips in Turkey
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