The diversity of plants in Türkiye is unparalleled. The flora of the country consists of almost 10,000 species of plants; moreover, one-third of the plants growing in Türkiye are endemic, meaning that they are unique to the particular land that they grow on and cannot grow elsewhere. Imagining that such a vast number of plant species can be found in a single defined geographic location is just incredible.
Imagine a world where candies and sweets rain down. No, it's not Pinocchio's Fantasyland; it's Manisa, a city in Türkiye's Aegean Region, located just 40 km northeast of İzmir. On April 27, candy showered down from the sky during the traditional Mesir Macun Scattering Ceremony in Manisa. “Mesir Macunu” is a particular kind of spicy sugar paste that has a history of 485 years.
Greengages are now in their full season! This odd fruit is one of the peculiar addictions of Turkish people.
Easter bread, namely “Paskalya Çöreği” in Turkish, is the source of that alluring smell, with its unmistaken combination of yeasty dough flavored with secret ingredients that mark the taste of the Easter bread in Türkiye.
I was just about to put the caption of this article as; “Breaking News: No food at White Lotus!” After binge watching Season 3, it seemed to me that the popular TV series missed the opportunity to showcase the amazing richness of Thai cuisine.
When it comes to olives, I tend to define a person as an olive or non-olive person. If you’re born in an olive tree region, it is in your veins. Olive is your destiny.
Now that it's the time of the Ramadan feast in Türkiye, these are the days of sweets. In my childhood, the name Eid, or the Ramadan feast, was always associated with candies, thus it was called the Candy or Sugar Feast.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin became the capital of transformation and change, of diversity and creativity — it is now also the address of chefs who break the traditional walls in gastronomy.
After the dark and cold winter days, when the earth stays dormant, spring is a sudden source of joy. The belief in the endless repetition of the life cycle is once again confirmed, a new season of agriculture is beginning in hopes of abundance and plenty.
