Eat Smart in Turkey: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 096411688X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 140 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Eat Smart in Turkey will take the guesswork out of choosing from an unfamiliar menu. Second in the "Eat Smart" series of culinary travel guidebooks, this paean to Turkish cuisine contains a rich historical perspective on food origins and extensive background on regional dishes, including recipes. It mixes information and inspiration to give readers the tools to journey into the culinary soul of their destination. If you're going to Turkey, this is one book you must take along!Distributed for Ginkgo Press. Its comprehensive guide to Turkey's unique cuisine will give vacation-goers, business travelers and backpackers alike an extra dimension of travel pleasure
A dictionary of menus and market foods of Turkey, this book is also a paean to Turkish cuisine. . The history and culture involved in kebabs and yogurt is fascinating and the food glossary is a great help. Finally, the recipes are a delightful bonus because it's impossible to take an eating tour of Turkey without wanting to sample the goods again and again without having to fly half way around the world every time you crave sirkeli patlican. Joan and David Peterson have their priorities straight: in Turkey as in most places, it's food that comes first
The best culinary guide to Turkey--period. tamerbey The long title of this book does not even say it all. It's undoubtedly the best guide to Turkish cuisine *by far*.I've written best-selling guidebooks on Turkey for nearly 40 years (first for Frommer's, then for Lonely Planet for 20 years), traveled (and eaten) in Turkey almost every year since 1967, and Peterson's book still taught me lots of new and interesting things about Turkish cuisine. I'm still learning from it.This was not a contract job done on assignment for a big publisher in a hurry. The authors are obviously heart-and-soul foodies who started publishing their own cu. "This book is awesome! We just got back from Istanbul" according to Pablo Freddy Man. This book was sooo helpful for our week stay in Istanbul.I could see some other jealous tourists on other tables, they'd kind of be trying to see what book I was furiously pondering over when I had our menu in front of us as they sat on their table wondering what the heck they should order. I did mention the book to a few other people and am happy to give it a 5 star rating here.The book was a perfect size for us because the pages of the book are a decent size so the book is thinner (rather than being small pages and a thick book). It fit easily into one of our bags and didn't bu. "No traveler should be without an EAT SMART guide." according to A Customer. The authors have written a series of Eat Smart books that no traveler to foreign countries should be without. Each book covers a separate country--Eat Smart in Turkey, Eat Smart in Brazil, Eat Smart in Indonesia and Eat Smart in Mexico--and is chock full of information that you won't find elsewhere within the covers of one easy-to-carry paperback. Individual chapters cover such topics as the history of the country's cuisine, regional foods, how to shop in the local markets, mail-order sources for suppliers of ingredients, and a collection of recipes for typical dishes found in th