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
Also recommended
La Vie en Rose: the Isparta rose harvest, by Martyn Rix Cornucopia 23
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
On the Road to Tarsus with photographs: David George Cornucopia 1
Sinan: Architect of a Forgotten Renaissance, by Brian Sewell, with photographs by Ara Güler from Sinan: Architect of Süleyman the Magnificent, by John Freely and Augusto Romano Burelli Cornucopia 3
Over the Hills and Far Away: Travels in northeast Anatolia Cornucopia 12
Also recommended:
The Eastern Mediterranean: Between the Taurus and the Deep Blue Sea, by Kate Clow and Jacqueline de Gier Cornucopia 23
Escape from Istanbul:
Hill towns and hay meadows By Paul Harcourt Davis
A weekend away in the country, where love in the mist, Bithynian fritillaries and timber houses colour the landscape. Beyond the crowded skyline lies countryside of stunning beauty. In this issue we have the first of Cornucopia's articles on the Anatolian and Thracian hinterlands of Istanbul. For the photographer Paul Harcourt Davies it was the lure of the hedgerows and hay meadows that led him down the country lanes of ancient Bithynia, to Konuralp, home of Rome's largest theatre in northern Anatolia (Asia Minor) and the Bolu mountains, collecting stunning images of wild delphiniums, umbellifers and orchids
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.
Fritz von der Schulenburg photographs the ways interior design is reinterpreting the East
A Marvellous Bright Eye: Freya 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 Izzard, her biographer, recounts the discomforts and discoveries of her five punishing journeys.
Also recommended
Rough Journeys: George Bean and Terence Mitford, by Barnaby Rogerson Cornucopia 23
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
