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
The head of a female from a pillar in Nevali Cori's cult building
Paris Interiors
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
The oval room at the centre of the housein Paris was designed by the architect Rene Sergent around a set of pastoral scenes by Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745-1811).
The Camondo Steps in Galata are the only trace of the Camondo name left in modern Istanbul
Patricia Daunt reveals the turbulent past of the Hotel de Lamballe in Paris. Cornucopia 30
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.
Emin Barin 1913-87
Connoisseur
The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire: a scintillating drama in 1.800 volumes. Jason Goodwin previews the greatest sale in a decade, of books on the Ottoman Empire.
Jason Goodwin is the author of Lords of the Horizons: a history of the Ottoman Empire as well as an intriguing series of detective stories staring Yashim the eunuch sleuth.
'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
Also by Martyn Rix: see La Vie en Rose: the story of the Isparta rose harvest in Cornucopia 23
The milky way Text, recipes and photographs 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
For a complete list of Berrin Torolsan's cookery stories in Cornucopia, see our cookery index. Selected recipes are also available online: menus.
Muhallebi Milk Pudding
Kuymak Wheatflour Milk Pudding
Su Muhallebisi Water Muhallebi
Keskul Cream of Almond Pudding
Tavuk Gogsu Kazandibi Caremalised Cream of Chicken Breast
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.
