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String bags for stingy customers AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

String bags for stingy customers

String bags were a thing of past in Turkey, perhaps remembered from childhood for most of Turkish citizens.

January 14 2019
Wheat is wealth AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Wheat is wealth

This morning, there will probably be countless bowls of leftover boiled wheat pudding cups in many kitchens around the Kurtuluş and Pangaltı neighborhoods of Istanbul, in the kitchens of Armenian families and their neighbors.

January 06 2019
Watch your plate in 2019 AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Watch your plate in 2019!

End of December is the time when the food trends of the coming year are announced by leading food magazines, newspapers or self-appointed trendsetters.

December 30 2018
Blue tiles and boiled beans, Pandeli is back AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Blue tiles and boiled beans, Pandeli is back

The story starts with a dish of beans, just plain boiled beans, soft, tender, tasty, served with thinly sliced onions and a dressing of olive oil and vinegar. And the story continues with serving stars, celebrities, kings and queens in a blue tiled pretty restaurant. This is the fairy tale of a bygone era of Istanbul. 

December 23 2018
Gastronomic gifts AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Gastronomic gifts

Gift-giving season is in! When December comes, a weird kind of anxiety begins in my family. What to do for Weihnachten?

December 09 2018
Fifty Shades of Titanium AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Fifty Shades of Titanium

Many architects have had the opportunity to create masterpieces that have become iconic landmarks and changed the urban landscape, but none have done so as much as Frank Gehry’s titanium-clad Guggenheim Bilbao.

December 02 2018
One at the market, a thousand at home AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

One at the market, a thousand at home

Pomegranate has been regarded as a symbol of fertility and abundance by almost all the cultures that existed in Anatolia, Western Asia and the Middle East. It is surely the most attractive fruit once it is burst open when countless jewel-like seeds inevitably remind one of a treasure chest full of precious gems. The Turkish expression “One at the market, a thousand at home” signifies the local trust of its stand for prosperity.  

November 25 2018
Grasping the grape AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Grasping the grape

Imagine a wine tasting where you can take hold of your glass and start sampling hundreds of different labels side by side--grouped according to their density and grape varieties and not according to their producers.

November 18 2018
Olive harvest in full speed: Dim season, bright future AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Olive harvest in full speed: Dim season, bright future

As olive harvest season is going on in full speed in Turkey, olive oil manufacturers have bitter feelings for the season.

November 11 2018