The best cookbook is one from which you can learn something new, and I'm always on the lookout for cookbooks from specific cultures, so when Essential Turkish Cuisine came up for review, I grabbed a copy. Not just recipes - although there are about 200 of them - but also Turkish history, habits, traditional spice mixtures (some I'd never heard of), and food customs of both peasants and royalty. (Did you know the Turks started out as nomads in Mongolia? Me neither.)
Perfect. The author runs a cooking school in Turkey, and it shows. She explains how to make everything from homemade tomato paste to Borek (stuffed pastry).
Highly recommended.
I received a pre-release copy of this book for review. The image above links to the book's Amazon page.
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