Turkish Bananas: where size isn’t everything
One of the wonderful things about living in Turkey is the continuous supply of fresh, flavoursome fruit and vegetables and at this time...
Taş Mekan – tapas, wine, friendship and happiness
Housed in an attractive single storey stone building, Taş Mekan with its high wooden beamed ceilings, blazing wood fire for winter and...
Pumpkins – from Jack-o-Lanterns to delicious desserts
It's autumn and pumpkins are ripe and plentiful, just in time for Halloween.
History of the Jack-o-Lantern
Turkey’s colourful food – with colourful names
Turks love food. They write love songs, ballads and poems about it.
Turkish cuisine produces a great variety of...
Jujubes – natural, exotic and loaded with health benefits
If you visit the fruit and vegetable markets during September and October you'll be sure to see mounds of a small red...
Hands-on Turkish Cookery Class with Ozlem Warren at Yakamoz Hotel, Ovacık – Wednesday, October...
Please join us for a scrumptious hands on Turkish cookery class (including how to make home made baklava) where you will be...
Turkish style lunch and Ozlem’s cookery demo, talk and book signing at Yakamoz Hotel,...
Please join us for a scrumptious Turkish style lunch at the Yakamoz Hotel, Ovacık where Ozlem Warren will give a talk on Turkish...
Ozlem’s Turkish Table hands-on classes at Guru’s Place Cookery School, Kalkan – Friday, October...
Ozlem Warren, International cookery teacher and the author of Ozlem’s Turkish Table cookery book, is delighted to be visiting Guru’s Place Cookery School in Kalkan, on...
Enticing, exquisite, delectable figs
Did you know that Turkey is the number one producer of fresh and dried figs (incir) in the world?
Sumac – the versatile spice with a tangy lemon flavour
Sumac (pronounced soo-mak) is one of the most useful but least known and under-appreciated spices.
What is Sumac?