For every traveler, exploring the cuisine is an indispensable part of the journey, helping them enjoy the culture and life there. Similarly, when visiting Turkey, people will find something delicious to eat in every corner. Surrounded by seas and spread across two continents with one foot in Europe and one in Asia as Istanbul, Turkish cuisine varied following geography and influenced by East and West fusion. Therefore, if you might just know about popular Turkish dishes like kebabs, these 10 Turkish cookbooks listed in this article will open a new gateway to this robust heaven of food. The Turkish Cookbook This cookbook covers a wealth of regional and ethnic Turkish food that it's quite difficult to find recipes for elsewhere (or eat anywhere but in less-traveled parts of Turkey or in the author's Istanbul restaurant), but unfortunately it has a number of translation and editing issues -- some ingredients are mistranslated or translated strangely (e.g. 'sour cherries' for the fruit of the cherry laurel, or 'poppy seeds' for white/yellow poppy seeds, both of which are critical to the dish and hard to find in the west, though substitutable), ingredients are sometimes unspecified (e.g. '200g lamb' with no specification of cut or treatment), or specified inconsistently (e.g. "peppers", "chillies", "chiles", "sweet chiles", "hot chiles", and "hot peppers" all used inconsistently, leading to some confusion about sweet or hot peppers for a dish); there are also a few typo errors (e.g. swapping tomato and pepper pastes). If you read Turkish & can compare recipes, this is fine; otherwise be wary! About the Author:The author of this cookbook is Michelle Anderson. She is the author and ghostwriter of more than 30 cookbooks focused on healthy diets and delicious food. Michelle Anderson ever worked as a professional chef for more than 25 years in fine dining restaurants across North Africa and Ontario, Canada. Now she lives in Temiskaming Shores, Ontario, Canada. Soframiz: Vibrant Middle Eastern Recipes from Sofra Bakery and Cafe [A Cookbook]

Turkey has made an enduring contribution to the world's cuisine with its diverse and important gastronomic history and classic-simple yet rich in flavors - cuisine. Turkish cuisine is a mosaic, a colorful cuisine enriched by the recipes and techniques of many ancient cultures-Phoenician, Hittite, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Persian, Chinese, and Greek - and the creativity of the cooks and the geography of the regions they lived in.Becoming friends after finding the same common in love for Turkish food, the two authors had been accompanied together in a cultural adventure tour of Turkey that spanned ten years. Returning from this journey, they decided to call upon Anatolia’s flavors not just by cooking meals every day for friends and families but incorporating in writing a recipe book. This definitive cookbook encompasses all regions of Turkey with its vast variety of culinary influences. It is filled with stunning photographs of beautiful dishes, inspiring people and places, as well as the cultural and culinary history of Turkey."― Leite's Culinaria But more than just recipes, this book will show you different ways to use ingredients like meats, poultry, and fish. It also emphasizes the use of vegetables and whole grains in a plethora of hearty and home-cooked family staples. And besides all this, the book spends time exploring the country’s dynamic cultural heritage, with an introduction dedicated to he vast culinary history of Turkey. From home-cooked meals and summers spent in North Cyprus to an exciting interpretation of modern Turkish-Cypriot cooking in London, this cookbook will let you feel different experiences through each dish.

In Turkish cooking, there are no unusual ingredients. You can go into any supermarket in this country and find what you need to make very easy Turkish dishes." In the Netherlands, there is a considerable Turkish community and thus Turkish stores and bakeries are pretty common. However, most of these serve a few common dishes and do often not reflect the wide variety of Turkish food available (although, if you know where to go, you’d probably be able to find them). It gives a sneak peak into the wide world of Turkish cooking which goes way beyond a doner kebab or baklava. Musa Dağdeviren is chef-owner of Ciya Sofra. He was born in Nizip, Gaziantep in 1960 and started working in his uncle's bakery when he was 5 years old, until 1977, when he moved to Istanbul and started to work with his uncle as a cook, responsible for the wood burning oven. He learned to make kebabs and appetizers in the Istanbul and Gaziantep styles and developed his experiences on kebab and pide. After more apprenticeship and his military service, he returned to Istanbul and worked as the master cook of kebab and appetizers in a few restaurants, and also worked in a bakery. In 1987 he opened Ciya/Kebap-Lahmacun, and in 1990, Zeynep Caliskan, who would later become his wife, joined the Ciya family. Musa’s experiences and his further research enriched the kebab menu containing a list of 100 items. He also created the first vegetarian lahmacun and kebab. In 1998 he opened Ciya Sofra, where he created a unique menu with the local food, desserts, and drinks of a vast area. In 2001 he started another kebab restaurant, Ciya Kebap II. In 2005 Musa and Zeynep established Çiya Publishing Company and started to publish a semi-academic quarterly magazine called Food and Culture. They have now published five books and three translated books. In 2018, Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning program Chef’s Table featured Musa in Season 5. His first cookbook in English, The Turkish Cookbook, contains 550 recipes and was published by Phaidon in April 2019. Musa and Zeynep established the Çiya Foundation 10 years ago; it produces research and projects in relation to food and drinks culture.

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Vibrant, bold, and aromatic, Turkish food - from grilled meats, salads, and gloriously sweet pastries to home-cooking family staples such as dips, pilafs, and stews - is beloved around the world. Each recipe in this book is fun for everyday eating and entertaining. With a primer on essential ingredients and techniques, readers will feel being transported to the markets and kitchens of the Middle East. About the Author:The author of this cookbook is Musa Daĝdeviren. He is a famous chef in Istanbul, where his three restaurants were located, including the first one named Çiya. Together with his wife, he set up and runs a foundation devoted to rediscovering Turkish culinary heritage and publishing his findings in a quarterly journal. Readers can find him featured in the international press and regularly lectures at food conferences and culinary schools. Istanbul and Beyond: Exploring the Diverse Cuisines of Turkey Beginning with Istanbul with the fusion cuisine from the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia, now they invite readers to an unforgettable adventure to the lesser-known provinces, boasting rich and diverse culinary traditions and opening a vivid world of flavors influenced by neighboring Syria, Iran, Iraq, Armenia, and Georgia.

The subsequent recipes (of which there are plenty!) are laid out simply and clearly and most don’t require that many ingredients at all (although some do contain ingredients that are less common outside of turkey). Instructions are short, but clear and again each start with a few lines of introduction stating whether it’s a winter or summer dish, where it’s one for daily life or special occasions. Again, it is what makes this book come to life and it makes you feel like you’re learning about Turkish food and not just getting a recipe. If you intend to discover classic and modern Turkish cooking, The Complete Book Of Turkish Cooking is a considerable choice. In this exciting and comprehensive book, Ghillie Basan explores the rich culinary history&traditions of the Turkish people and the evolution of their cuisine. About the Author:The author of this cookbook is Selin Kiazim. Inspired by her Turkish-Cypriot heritage, which focuses on communal eating, she developed her love of cooking at an early age. She opened Oklava with her business partner Laura Christie in London’s Shoreditch in November 2015. Learn more about her at www.selinkiazim.com. Tree of Life: Turkish Home Cooking

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Right after we bought the book, we decided to put it to the test. We made a fresh herb pilaf, a pear kebab, almond rice pudding, lahmacun and sour okra. All recipes were new to us. We had eaten similar foods before, but never these. Since most dishes didn’t contain a photo that did involve some guess work. However, all in all, the recipes turned out well. Her passion for Turkish food and exploring its diverse culinary landscape shines through in her cookbook as she shares her personal stories of traveling throughout Turkey and learning from local cooks. And it is economical. For example, they will never put a roast on the table. Instead, Turkish cooks will take a pound of meat and mix it with vegetables, grain, rice or lentils, and it will feed six to eight people." read more....