Istanbul Cult Recipes Hardcover – March 6, 2018

My first introduction to "Cult Recipes" was last year's "Tokyo Cult Recipes," which I can't recommend highly enough. The "Cult Recipes" books are a virtual stroll around some of the world's great cities (Venice, New York, Tokyo, Istanbul), with detailed maps, itineraries, and supporting recipes to match. The included photographs capture the vibrant people and places, as well as mise en place and various markets and ingredients.Turkish cuisine is probably my favorite and I have numerous Turkish books in my collection, so I was eager to see how this would stack up.From the gorgeous gold-embossed cover to the unique black-and-white cartoons, "Istanbul Cult Recipes" is a fantastic love song to the city. True to Turkish cuisine, the bulk of the recipes are for meze, including a vibrant beetroot couscous, chopped salad with walnuts, and purslane salad, kebabs, pilavs, and veg-friendly mains (lentil kofte, hot salads, black-eyed peas with tomato, sarma, etc.). The street food chapter introduced me to some new favorites (I had no idea that giant baked potatoes were popular outside the US), while the "Sweet Things" chapter doesn't disappoint with kadayif, kunefe, muhallebi, kurabiye, lokma, Turkish delight and baklava. I loved the pumpkin dessert and baked quince ideas. The illustrated pastries and condiments, grains and pulses, and dried herbs and spices charts were also tremendously helpful. Recipes are listed in metric / US volume / US weight measurements, which I greatly appreciated (more and more UK titles are doing this thankfully!).The recipes themselves are simple and straightforward, and most don't require extensive prep or cooking time, making it easy to prepare several dishes to be served together, as is the tradition in Turkey.A fantastic collection to your cookbook library and one of my top cookbooks of 2016!

Great layout and photos, but the recipes are not always the best ones I've come across. But measurements are provided in imperial and metric system(s) which is always preferred over the Turkish directions of the vague "one Turkish tea cup" :-)

My first introduction to "Cult Recipes" was last year's "Tokyo Cult Recipes," which I can't recommend highly enough. The "Cult Recipes" books are a virtual stroll around some of the world's great cities (Venice, New York, Tokyo, Istanbul), with detailed maps, itineraries, and supporting recipes to match. The included photographs capture the vibrant people and places, as well as mise en place and various markets and ingredients.Turkish cuisine is probably my favorite and I have numerous Turkish books in my collection, so I was eager to see how this would stack up.From the gorgeous gold-embossed cover to the unique black-and-white cartoons, "Istanbul Cult Recipes" is a fantastic love song to the city. True to Turkish cuisine, the bulk of the recipes are for meze, including a vibrant beetroot couscous, chopped salad with walnuts, and purslane salad, kebabs, pilavs, and veg-friendly mains (lentil kofte, hot salads, black-eyed peas with tomato, sarma, etc.). The street food chapter introduced me to some new favorites (I had no idea that giant baked potatoes were popular outside the US), while the "Sweet Things" chapter doesn't disappoint with kadayif, kunefe, muhallebi, kurabiye, lokma, Turkish delight and baklava. I loved the pumpkin dessert and baked quince ideas. The illustrated pastries and condiments, grains and pulses, and dried herbs and spices charts were also tremendously helpful. Recipes are listed in metric / US volume / US weight measurements, which I greatly appreciated (more and more UK titles are doing this thankfully!).The recipes themselves are simple and straightforward, and most don't require extensive prep or cooking time, making it easy to prepare several dishes to be served together, as is the tradition in Turkey.A fantastic collection to your cookbook library and one of my top cookbooks of 2016!

This book is lovely to look at and contains a lot of recipes that look do-able and delicious. And if it's Turkish culture that interests you then you will find great photos, stories and explanations regarding Turkish eating and places you can go in Istanbul to buy ingredients and eat. The book arrived promptly and in good condition.

Çok güzel ♥️ l wanted to learn how to cook islak burgers,so purchased this,but was happy to find so many recipes,along so my husband's favourite soup,so will be making poor attempts to emulate the tastes, but never the atmosphere,of Istanbul. designed well, beautiful front cover,has all ingredients, alternative ingredients, recipe, methods, history and area in Istanbul they originate and some of the food, culture and history told for each dish. Nice layout and pictures, Easy to follow and read in English.takes pride in my kitchen as my only cook book!

This is a superb book, it is full of recipes from Turkey, and includes many favourites that we have had in Turkey and Cyprus. Straightforward instructions with alternative ingredients i.e. replace x with y if you don't have it or can't get it. I have cooked and baked several recipes out of this book so far, and they have all been delicious. If you want a middle eastern book - and if you like a photo of what the end product should look like, then definitely I recommend this book to you.