 | "Do not dismiss the dish saying that it is just, simply food. The blessed thing is an entire civilization in itself!"
In a world of frozen food, tinned food and "steak and chips" the Turkish cuisine undoubtedly holds a place of its own. This cuisine is resisting the encroachment of fast food both in the domestic setting and restaurants. The broad spectrum foodways of the cosmopolitan Ottoman Empire stretching from the Balkans to North Africa, combined with the traditional cooking techniques of the Turks going back long centuries, gave rise to a fascinating and richly diverse synthesis.
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