How To Make Turkish Borek With Pumpkin
This is a regional recipe for börek pastry from the Bilecik province in midwestern Turkey, a notable producer of excellent quality chickpeas, quince, and walnuts.…
Monthly Archives: December 2015
CoBrA
"A painting is not a structure of colours and lines, but an animal, a night, a cry, a man, or all of these together" -Constant…
An Istanbul Retrospective
An hypnotic aura permeates Istanbul, inexplicably seducing me, its melancholy and contradictions satisfying some deep seated inner need for chaos. The determined entrepreneur opening up…
Fresh Global and Local Satire At CKM Caddebostan
CKM recently displayed a great collection of artists' comic renderings from the International Cartoon Competition 2015. After viewing the drawings, I photographed a sample of…
The Original Bagel
A Saturday morning habit bordering on religious...roll out of bed, throw on clothes, and buy a half dozen fresh simit from the local vendor on…