The Ottoman Kitchen: Modern Recipes from Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, Lebanon, Syria and Beyond

by Sarah Woodward

Book Overview

Nowhere has there ever been a city more famous for its bazaars than Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey. Standing at the gateway from Europe to the East, the once-fabled Byzantine capital became the center of the vast Ottoman Empire, which at the height of its glory spread East-West from Baghdad to Tripoli and North-South from Budapest to Cairo. Every Ottoman city was a shopping center, and as early as the sixteenth century Western travelers wrote...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566564123
• ISBN13: 9781566564120
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.3" x 11.3"