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Bulgur When I lived in Turkey before, your main course was always accompanied by white rice with pine nuts (pilav – pronounced “pilau”). Nowadays, due to increased prices, white rice is often not available. What the Turks have done instead is substitute it with bulgur pilav, which is not rice at all, but cracked [...] Continue reading Bulgur – A Tasty Side Dish Bliss, by O.Z. Livanelli, is a good read about a naive young girl who is condemned to death by her family. I’m a little torn that in some ways it confirms a lot of suspicions that the west has about Muslim countries, but on the other hand these events do still happen – especially in Eastern Turkey. [...] Continue reading Bliss – Book Review Lots of Nazar boncugular to ward off the jealous eyes! The moment you enter Turkey and start looking around, you immediately notice the “Nazar Boncugu” or Evil Eye everywhere. They are hung from car rearview mirrors, worn as jewelry, nailed to the outside of houses or in an entryway, or even woven into a [...] Continue reading Avoiding the Evil Eye We drove the 25 kilometers south of Sanliurfa, and very close to the Syrian border, to the town of Harran. It is well-known for its beehive houses, which have been inhabited for somewhere between 100-200 years. Made out of mud and hay, they have a conical-shaped roof that does look quite different than any [...] Continue reading New Friends in Harran One of the many kunefe cafes along the main shopping area in Sanliurfa. Kunefe is a desert that is made from shredded yufka sandwiching, a stringy cheese such as kasar, cooked in a pan over a flame, then served with a sugary water. In Ankara there are plenty of restaurants that offer this delicacy, [...] Continue reading Ambrosia? Dessert of the Gods? Time-Lapse Japan Japan is a country where everyone is polite and the streets are clean; it’s has so much to offer the tourist. If you haven’t done much travel in Asia, Japan is a great place to start because it has all the exoticism of Asia, but at the same time is meticulously clean [...] Continue reading Time-lapse Japan |
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