276°
Posted 20 hours ago

The Turkish Cookbook: Regional Recipes and Stories

£9.9£99Clearance
ZTS2023's avatar
Shared by
ZTS2023
Joined in 2023
82
63

About this deal

Her passion for Turkish food and exploring its diverse culinary landscape shines through in her cookbook as she shares her personal stories of traveling throughout Turkey and learning from local cooks. From a country rich in culinary traditions comes an exhaustively researched, written and photographed book."― The Sunday Times

About the Author:The author of this cookbook is Musa Daĝdeviren. He is a famous chef in Istanbul, where his three restaurants were located, including the first one named Çiya. Together with his wife, he set up and runs a foundation devoted to rediscovering Turkish culinary heritage and publishing his findings in a quarterly journal. Readers can find him featured in the international press and regularly lectures at food conferences and culinary schools. Istanbul and Beyond: Exploring the Diverse Cuisines of Turkey In general, Turkish cuisine is "healthful and easy to prepare using readily accessible ingredients found in most American supermarkets or ethnic markets," the author says. recipes of hearty, healthy Turkish cuisine, from the leading authority on Turkey's unique food traditions, Musa Dagdeviren, as featured in the Netflix documentary series Chef's Table In the 80’s he opened up his first own restaurant, Çiya. This restaurant grew over time, opening up new concepts in the same street and owning their own farm for their produce. He has not limited himself to one type of Turkish cuisine. Instead, he strongly believes that all the different heritages, Azeri, Georgian, Turkish, Aarabic, Armenian, etc. should all be served together. Food is what should bring people together, not push them apart. Chef’s table

Verify that you are not a robot

Musa Dagdeviren is the most acclaimed chef in Turkey and the author of The Turkish Cookbook. He runs three successful restaurants in the heart of Istanbul, and a foundation devoted to rediscovering Turkish culinary heritage. In this latest offering, Musa shares the culturally rich foods of his homeland, with dishes deeply rooted in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern traditions.

With influences from the Mediterranean, Southern Europe, and the Middle East, Turkish-Cypriot food offers incredible flavor combinations unique to its region. Celebrating the culinary delights of this area in a way no cookbook has done before, Oklava: The Cookbook brings up recipes that all simply come from the “rolling pin” of the author’s grandmother. His family was one of farmers and bakers. He himself, as well as his brothers, were bakers. Baking is an essential part of Turkish culture, fresh breads are a vital part of a lot of dishes. Having to move to Istanbul in the late 70’s, he started work at the restaurant of his uncle’s, opening up his perspective to food and the different dishes even further. For every traveler, exploring the cuisine is an indispensable part of the journey, helping them enjoy the culture and life there. Similarly, when visiting Turkey, people will find something delicious to eat in every corner. Surrounded by seas and spread across two continents with one foot in Europe and one in Asia as Istanbul, Turkish cuisine varied following geography and influenced by East and West fusion. Therefore, if you might just know about popular Turkish dishes like kebabs, these 10 Turkish cookbooks listed in this article will open a new gateway to this robust heaven of food. The Turkish Cookbook A disclaimer: this isn't a book that tries to Westernize Turkish recipes into fun, blog-worthy bites with quirky names that sidestep umlauts and unfamiliar sounds... It is an exhaustive, almost encyclopedic manifesto of nuanced, regional Turkish cuisine... A book that savors culinary history instead of rushing through and condensing it."― KKUP/KUSFCollecting recipes from several objects such as village home cooks, community bakers, café chefs, farmers, and fishermen, the author has brought up a unique collection of authentic, easy-to-follow recipes that many of them have never before been published in English.

Asda Great Deal

Free UK shipping. 15 day free returns.
Community Updates
*So you can easily identify outgoing links on our site, we've marked them with an "*" symbol. Links on our site are monetised, but this never affects which deals get posted. Find more info in our FAQs and About Us page.
New Comment