We first met Jefri in my husband’s village on the Black Sea in 2012. He was a tiny street puppy who had been given attention by one of Şeref’s young nephews, who then went back to Germany leaving Jefri with only his name. We had a dog at that time, a giant Neapolitan Mastiff named …
Category: Recipes
Tiny Kitchen Granola
American food trends tend to catch on quite a bit later here. For example, Turkey is a country of tea drinkers, but we are currently in the middle of a gourmet roasted coffee boom. In the past couple of years, we have had the smoothie/juice trend trying to take off. Cupcakes came and went, and …
Keshkek Meshkek
When I decided to start this project, I mulled over some different names, but Keshkek Meshkek kept coming back to me. In Turkish, if you want to emphasize a word, you take the word and repeat it, changing the first letter to an ‘M.’ It’s a way of saying ‘etcetera,’ or all things related to …