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As a local, pretty impressed with the listed items in Turkey! Still, the rabbithole goes much deeper. I highly recommend The Turkish Cookbook by Musa Dağdevire
by makmanalp 2y ago
As a local, pretty impressed with the listed items in Turkey!
Still, the rabbithole goes much deeper. I highly recommend The Turkish Cookbook by Musa Dağdeviren, a food anthropologist of sorts who spent his formative years traveling the country town by town and collecting recipes that were often condemned to be forgotten due to the modernization and globalization of food and food culture: often they'd be passed down generationally and not written down, rely on manual and work intensive or just plain unusual methods, have ingredients that are easy to acquire in a rural household but hard to acquire in a grocery store, have flavors that would be considered unusual by the global standards of the 70s-90s, etc. It's a truly massive and amazing collection.
- mattpallissard 2y agoIt's my favorite cook book. I use it heavily. I pull recipes out of it to bring to parties and community events. I always get rave reviews and a million questions. The funny thing is I'm an American feeding (mostly) Americans. Not only do I have to substitute ingredients but, for the most part, I've never ever tried the dishes prior to cooking them. None of us know how "it's supposed to taste". I find it all pretty comical. He went and archived all of these rural Turkish recipes and now a bunch of people on a rural American island are attempting to replicate them. From where I stand, he nailed his goal. Edit; grammar
- walthamstow 2y agoWhere is a rural American island? I'm trying to think of some and drawing a blank
- mattpallissard 2y agoSoutheast Alaska
- jaystraw 2y agoget my band The Jephries a gig so we can come down from Anchorage and eat some of your Turkish dishes! hehehe
- mattpallissard 2y agoHa! It's a probably little late to get on the docket for this years Mayfest, but I'd imagine next year wouldn't be much trouble.
- makmanalp 2y agoWow, that's amazing and a bit funny - so heartwarming to me that it's a success!
- mynameisnoone 2y agoNice. How I recreate a taste of my distant Kurdish friends' fast casual Mediterranean restaurant at home: Turkish tea: Çaykur Rize Cayi tea, double pot, Turkish tea glasses, and sugar or honey Turkish coffee: https://www.mehmetefendi.com https://www.mehmetefendi.com, Turkish coffee pot, and sugar
- makmanalp 2y agoNice! You need to get the sugar cubes and use way too many for maximum authenticity :-) I myself am partial to Çaykur's Hemşin tea, by the way. Mehmet Efendi is good if you're walking by the shop (smells amazing) but the dirty secret is that in a post specialty coffee world, you're probably better off asking your local coffee shop to grind fresh beans for you on the "Turkish" setting or absent that, the finest possible setting they have - more than espresso. And you get to have an interesting conversation with the baristas because they're always super psyched about it for some reason. Arabica beans, dark roast, low acidity from Ethiopia, Yemen etc is traditional but you shouldn't feel limited to that.