Cornucopia: the magazine of the Turkish world Highlights 26: neolithic Anatolia/Mesopotamia

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		CORNUCOPIA Issue 26, 2002, £8 (US$16) ADD TO BASKET SUBSCRIBE Volume 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 Volume 2 special volume offer 7 8 9 10 11 12 Volume 3 special volume offer 13 14 15 16 17 18 Volume 4 special volume offer 19 20 21 22 23 24 Volume 5 special volume offer 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Special Istanbul Edition 32 Volume 6 33 34 35 36 37 Cover image: 9th-millennium BC deity, Neolithic finds
	CORNUCOPIA No 26 Highlights Neolithic discoveries I I Camondo Dynasty I I Atabey Books I I Sir Herbert Chermside I I Mount Ida I I Glass Beads I I Milk Puddings I I Book Reviews
	ANATOLIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
	Cover Story: Neolithic discoveries in southeast Turkey THE SHOCK OF THE OLD Harald Hauptmann reveals the extraordinary significance of the latest neolithic finds in the eastern Taurus mountains
		This feline carving dates from the 9th millennium BC and is one of the earliest pieces of religious art ever discovered. Harald Hauptmann, who led the archaeologists who unearthed it near the city of Urfa, explains why the early Neolithic sites of southeastern Turkey are rewriting history. A fully-illustrated 18-page report
	HISTORICAL INTERIORS
	PARIS TREASURES OF A LOST DYNASTY By Patricia Daunt Photographs by Jean Marie del Moral	The Camondo family, once dubbed ‘the Rothschilds of the East’, amassed a fortune in Turkey before moving to Paris in 1869. There, in the rue de Monceau, they established an exquisite collection of 18th-century French art, which was bequeathed to the nation in 1935. Today the Musée Nissim de Camondo is all that survives of this magnificent but short-lived dynasty. A 22-page photographic record of the Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris by the brilliant French photographer and regular contributor to Cornucopia Jean-Marie del Moral. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in 18th-century French art. It also throws fascinating new light on the Ottoman Empire's relations with the West in the 19th century and is the moving story of a great, but ill-fated Istanbul banking family
	ART
	Exhibitions EMIN BARIN AND THE ART OF LETTER WRITING By Elizabeth Meath Baker
		Emin Barin left school in 1928, the year the Latin alphabet was introduced in Turkey. For the son of a calligrapher, illuminator and bookbinder, who was already absorbed in these arts himself, the momentous nature of the change must have been obvious: it would have seemed to sound their death knell. In fact, this turned out to be far from the case. Elizabeth Meath Baker reports 3-page article, 10 illustrations. Catalogue sold out
	COLLECTING BOOKS OF THE OTTOMAN WORLD
	Connoisseur THE RISE AND THE FALL OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: A SCINTILLATING DRAMA IN 1,800 VOLUMES By Jason Goodwin	Jason Goodwin previews the greatest sale in a decade of books on the Ottoman Empire. Plus highlights of the London Islamic sales	See full article
	PROFILE
	Portrait THE GOOD FIGHT Sir Herbert Chermside By David Barchard	Sir Herbert Chermside, modest to the last, wrote no self-aggrandising memoirs of three decades' service in the Ottoman Empire. However, this great Victorian soldier, admired by his contemporaries as a remarkable diplomat and a committed peacemaker, merits a place in the history books.	Also by David Barchard: see BFG: Big Friendly Giant: the life and times of Frederick Gustavus Burnaby, in Cornucopia 25
	TURKEY'S AEGEAN FLORA
	Turkey's Flora WILD ABOUT IDA Text and photographs by Martyn Rix	'From Troy, far to the north, you can see the long ridge and peaks of Mt Ida dominating the southern skyline. The tops are bare and windswept, but around the flanks of the mountain are woods which trap the winter snow and spring rain feeding the ancient River Scamander...' Mt Ida is the frontier between the warm Mediterranean and colder European climates, and a paradise for wild flowers. Martyn Rix prospected the area from cool, damp north to hot, dry south. There he found and photographed dwarf flax, giant hogweed - and plants that grow nowhere else in the world	Travel notes Also by Martyn Rix: see La Vie en Rose: the story of the Isparta rose harvest in Cornucopia 23 Where to stay in the Troad? There are plenty of choices in The Little Hotel Book
	TRADE SECRETS
	Trade Secrets BLUE IS THE COLOUR OF... By Elizabeth Meath Baker	Stripped to the waist, roasting by their tiny furnaces and pickled in resinous pine smoke and alarming quantities of alcohol downed to quench an insatiable thirst (and with the doors tightly shut for fear of draughts), the bead-makers of Izmir practise their craft a short stride from the runways of Izmir’s airport.
	COOKERY
	THE MILKY WAY By Berrin Torolsan	Simple, smooth and soothing, they satisfy the child in everyone. But milk puddings can also be gorgeously sophisticated. Berrin Torolsan revives the stars of Istanbul’s vanishing pudding shops Muhallebi Milk Pudding Kuymak Wheatflour Milk Pudding Su Muhallebisi Water Muhallebi Keskul Cream of Almond Pudding Tavuk Gogsu Kazandibi Caremalised Cream of Chicken Breast Sütlaç Rice Pudding Kaymakli Dondurma Salep Ice Cream Muhallebili Güllaç Rose-scented Pudding Çukulatali Muhallebi Chocolate Pudding

	Plus: Maureen Freely on Kar, the new Orhan Pamuk, Antony Wynn on Laurence Kelly's life of Griboyedov, Elizabeth Meath Baker on the graphic designer and bookbinder Emin Barin, Ates Orga on the Istanbul Festival, Azize Ethem's Village Voices, Andrew Finkel on new Istanbul restaurants, and a roundup of the Islamic art sales in London
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	Books reviewed in Cornucopia 26 Maureen Freely reviews the new Orhan Pamuk novel, Kar [Snow] Antony Wynn reviews Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia, by Laurence Kelly See book club menu for our special book offers Featured in the Connoisseur pages: The Library of Sefik Atabey, plus items from the Islamic spring sales including qibla compass, Iznik dish c1580, 10 pairs of damascened calligrapher's scissors, a Persian coco-de-mer keskul,, a gouache nude from a 17th-Ottoman poetry manuscript.
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