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Pandemic panic AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Pandemic panic

Covid-19 is sweeping the planet like a plague. Thankfully, it is not as deadly, but the panic the coronavirus has stirred is worthy of rethinking our global order.

March 15 2020
A tale of two ladies AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

A tale of two ladies

Claudia Roden, 83, is like the grand dame of food writing. She is the queen of Middle Eastern cuisine, a pioneer in writing about the culinary culture of countries like Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey.

March 08 2020
Food, fads and the future: Is siyez saved AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Food, fads and the future: Is siyez saved?

Nowadays, every celebrity chef in Turkey worth their salt uses “siyez” wheat bulgur.

March 01 2020
Bring on the Beans: Baklahorani AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Bring on the Beans: Baklahorani

It’s time to bid farewell to the gluttony and excess of fat days and prepare oneself for the lean days of Lent. It’s out with all the meat and dairy products, and in with beans and greens.

February 23 2020
Pas de Deux: Flying Four Hands AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Pas de Deux: Flying Four Hands

I met Igor in Gaziantep. Previously, I had met Ana in Istanbul, then for a second time in Bilbao. I’m talking about the Russian chef Igor Grishechkin and the Slovenian chef Ana Roš.

February 16 2020
Vegan vogue AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Vegan vogue

The Academy Awards, known shortly as the Oscar, is following the trend and joining the vegan-vegetarian van.

February 09 2020
Monty on Gluttony & Gastronomy AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Monty on Gluttony & Gastronomy

“We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flawn in from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.”

February 03 2020
Long noodles and bright tangerines AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Long noodles and bright tangerines

A few days back, as I was writing about the Chinese New Year for my Turkish language column, I was just about to say that the forthcoming year is prone to earthquakes, hurricanes and floods, or any disaster-related to the earth and water, and then I did not feel like writing distressing things and deleted my words.

January 26 2020
Living Library AYLİN ÖNEY TAN

Living Library

Turkish people are bread eaters, no doubt about that. In this country, without bread, people do not consider their belly satisfied. However, in the past few years, many doctors and dieticians claimed that bread is bad for one’s health, stirring heated arguments.

January 19 2020