Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Morning Istanbul wakes up and gets going with tea and olives! -- A delicious beginning -- Scrambled eggs with vegetables / menemen -- Breakfast spreads / sürmelik -- Typically Turkish: 20 teas and one coffee -- Turkish coffee / türk kahvesi -- People: Alparslan Baloğlu -- Black walnut preserve / ceviz macunu -- Feta & -- dill rolls / poğaça -- Ingredients: Olives -- Sweet bagels with olive paste / zeytin ezmeli açma -- What's what? Treasures from the market -- Midday Lunch on the Bosporus - taking a break with manti and melons. -- Beyond the gyro kebab -- Turkish tortellini / manti -- Baked melon with rice, nuts & -- melons / kavun dolmasi -- Ingredients: Pomegranates -- Wheat, feta & -- pomegranate salad / buğday salatasi -- People: Ayla Helvacioğlu -- Bulgur & -- herb dumplings / bulgur köftesi -- Zucchini fritters with feta & -- herbs / mücver -- Typically Turkish: Finger food -- Street-food chicken & -- rice / pilav -- Lemony lentil dumplings / mercimek köftesi Chilled yogurt soup with -- chickpeas & -- mint / yoğurt corbasi -- Chicken & -- apricot stew / mahmudiye yemegi -- What's what? Small gifts -- Sesame cotton candy with mulberries / pismaniye tatlisi -- Afternoon Turkish tea time - a beloved ritual. -- Sugarcubes -- Flatbread stuffed with spinach & -- feta / gözleme -- Ingredients: Yufka -- Savory pastry with potato & -- feta / gül böreği -- Sweet yufka apple rolls / helva tatlisi -- What's what?: Sweet things -- People: Elif Ocak -- Angel's hair / tel kadayif -- Typically Turkish: Muhallebici -- Baked rice pudding / firin sütlaç -- Wheat pudding with nuts & -- fruit / asure -- kaymakli kayisi tatlisi / Cinnamon apricots with cream -- Carrot ginger squares / cezerye -- Evening A city serves up meze for all! -- Lion's milk and delicious things.

White bean purée with lemon & -- dill / fava -- Typically Turkish: From great love to little meals… and with the right drink, too -- Carrot yogurt / havuç salatasi -- Zucchini yogurt with hazelnuts / yoğurtlu kabak ezme -- Yogurt with chicken & -- walnuts / çerkez tavuğu -- Tomato salad with dill & -- mint / acili ezme -- Roasted eggplant & -- garlic purée / patlican ezmesi -- People: Senem Ekin Sen -- Yogurt with cucumber & -- mint / cacik -- Ingredients: Purslane -- Purslane salad with mint & -- figs / semizotu salatasi -- What's what?: Fish -- Anchovies in vine leaves with sea beans / hamsi yaprak sarmasi -- Lamb stew with eggplant béchamel / hünkar beğendi -- Night Delicious greetings from Snackistan, from lahmacun to dürüm. -- Super Snacks -- Turkish nut pizza / cevizli lahmacun -- Stuffed Turkish flatbread / pide -- Typically Turkish: Dates and the Sugar Feast or Seker Bayrami -- Pudding with cinnamon & -- pine nuts / irmik helvasi -- Ingredients: Eggplants -- Stuffed eggplant / imam bayildi -- Spiced lamb & -- pistachio wraps / dürüm -- What's what? Savory snacks -- People: Suphi Yilmaz -- Lentil soup / mercimek çorbasi -- Glossary -- Cafes, shops & -- online sources -- Tes¸ekkürler! Thank you! -- Author biographies -- Recipe index -- Copyright.