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CORNUCOPIA HIGHLIGHTS #2 |
COVER STORY |
Cover Story The Essential Rose By Berrin Torolsan and Patricia Jellicoe Photographs
by Berrin Torolsan | 
| Capture the taste of summer for the winter months ahead. BERRIN TOROLSAN suggests recipes using rose petals and rose water that are as easy to prepare in cool northern climes as in the burning south. Plus the story of Anatolia's attar of roses, the foundation of all fine perfumes | Related articles:
La Vie en Rose: the Isparta rose harvest, by Martyn Rix Cornucopia 23
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TRAVEL & HISTORY |
The Road to Godhead By Brian Sewell Photographs
by David George | 
| The critic and art historian BRIAN SEWELL retraces Alexander the Great's dramatic route from Antalya across the high Anatolian plateau to the battlefield of Issus in 333BC where the Macedonian conqueror was to change the course of history and start his transformation into demi-god | |
ART |
Connoisseur The Orientalist's Rug By Penny Oakley | 
| The Oriental carpet was often painted with extraordinary realism in the 19th century and became a favourite decorative prop, PENNY OAKLEY identifies the Anatolian and Caucasian rugs in the paintings of two English artists working in Ottoman Cairo. | |
PROFILE |
A Marvellous Bright Eye: Frey Stark in Turkey By Molly Izzard | 
| Freya Stark made her name with her vivid writing about Persia and the Arab world in the Thirties. After the Second World War, already fifty-nine, she started tracing Alexander the Great's route through southern Turkey. Molly IIzzard, her biographer, recounts the discomforts and discoveries of her five punishing journeys. | |
Books reviewed in Cornucopia 2 |
David Barchard reviews The Scholar and the Gypsy, by James Howard-Johnston and Nigel Ryan; Turkish Reflections: A Biography of Place, by Mary Lee Settle; The Berlitz Travellers Guide 1992, ed Alan Tucker and Toni Cross. Tim Stanley reviews The Turkish Cabinet of the Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm of Baden-Baden, published by the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, 1991 |
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