“Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archaeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with the same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth."
– Edmondo de Amicis
Aziyadé: Pierre Loti’s Autobiographic Novel
“Every now and then turbaned figures would go by, following the wall; and not a single female head was to be seen behind the discreet grills of the women’s appartments, the ‘haremlikes’. A dead city, one might have said.I thought I was perfectly alone; then I experienced a strange feeling, and realised that close to …
Meerschaum pipes
Nothing to do with the sea. It is a deformation of Kumer, its inventor. So, as its name does not suggest, this meerschaum is found in the subsoil of Asia Minor. The pipes are made in Eskişehir, 240 km from Ankara. You can see the artisans at work by looking carefully…, the city is very …
The rugs
A carpet consists of two distinct parts: the chains, or skeletons of the carpet, these are the vertical threads. The wefts, which consolidate everything, are the horizontal threads. Chains and wefts make up the record. In knotted rugs, the knots are tied on the vertical threads and then leveled with scissors. Various kinds: There are …
Turkish Coffee Time!
It is mainly drunk in the Middle East. It is prepared in the cezve, a typical copper and brass vessel with a long handle.To prepare it, you need to obtain very fine ground coffee.Tradition provides for the use of a brass mill, in order to obtain an impalpable powder like icing sugar.It is drunk in …
Turkish Cuisine
Turkish Cuisine is one of the world’s three primary cuisines. It is as famous as the Chinese and French Cuisines. Turkey is renowned for the variety of its cooking. Its main characteristic is that unlike Oriental cuisine, it makes very modest use of spices. Turkish cooking does not tend to be heavy and rich as …
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There are plenty of products on the market. In my blog, I chose the real ones, used by the "Turkish Connaisseurs", just for you. They have been bought, tested, tasted or used since many many years.
