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POWER
DRESSING High fashion meets high
politics in the fabulous kaftans of the Ottoman golden age. Nurhan Atasoy unwraps a Washington
blockbuster | 
| For boldness, colour and virtuosity not to mention unashamed glittering
luxury nothing can compare with the golden age of the Ottoman kaftan. The latest blockbuster
exhibition, following the Royal Academy’s sensational ‘Turks’, is ‘Style and
Status’, showing at the Sackler Gallery in Washington from October 29. After months of conservation work
to ensure that they travel safely, the Topkapi has lent the Sackler dozens of its mesmerising royal kaftans
for a show that promises to sweep the fashion world off its feet. ‘Style and Status: Imperial Costumes
from Ottoman Turkey’ is on until January 22, 2006. | For more information about Style and Status,
Costumes from Ottoman Turkey, visit the Sackler's website. The exhibition was sponsored by Koç AS
and the Turkish Cultural
Foundation For another
stunningly illustrated article on Ottoman kaftans, see Cornucopia 23 To buy a kaftan in London or Istanbul, visit our Cornucopia of Good
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THE BLACK SEA: a special 38-page feature exploring the tea gardens and rain
forests |
LAND OF A THOUSAND MANSIONS
The Country Houses of the Black Sea Emerald-green tea gardens, thunderous rivers, magical rainforests
Turkey’s Eastern Black Sea Mountains are a remote paradise when they emerge from the mists and the rain.
In a special report featuring the photographs of Ali Konyalő, we celebrate the beauty of the mansions and
farmhouses that survey the valleys | 
| In 2004, the photographer Ali Konyalő set out
with his publisher, Ameli Edgü, to capture the magnificent houses of Turkey’s Eastern Black Sea
Mountains. The resulting book, published this summer, is a unique record of the region. Cornucopia presents
38 pages of the book’s visual highlights, with accompanying text based on the detailed knowledge of
Mustafa Reþat Sümerkan, an authority on the region’s vernacular architecture. But how did
these houses come to be built? The anthropologist. Michael Meeker investigates on page 74 | Two issues of
Cornucopia focus on the Black Sea, Cornucopia 12 and Cornucopia 28 |
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THE OTTOMANS: the amazing legacy of the last Caliph |
PAINTING HIS WAY
INTO HISTORY
The Last
Caliph, by Philip Mansel | 
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The dashing Abdülmecit Efendi, pictured here in his library, was the last member of the
Ottoman dynasty to hold court on the Bosphorus. Cultured, enlightened and with a passion for painting, he was
cousin of the last Sultan and spent two years as Caliph. But in 1924, the caliphate was abolished and
Abdülmecit left the city his family had captured five centuries earlier for exile in France. His
paintings, abandoned in the very studio of his house on Çamlőca Hill where he had created them, are a
remarkable pictorial legacy of the last days of empire. By Philip Mansel. Photographs of the Caliph's palace
on Camlica Hill by Fritz von der Schulenburg
| The
Ottoman palaces of Istanbul - Articles:
Cornucopia 22
Philip Mansel on the Abdulhamit's
guesthouse for the Kaiser (photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg)- Cornucopia 32
The Connoisseur's Guide to Istanbul- Books:
- Constantinople: City of the World's
Desire
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- Painters in
Ottoman Istanbul
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- Articles
- Cornucopia 28
Zonaro-
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MODERN ARCHITECTURE ON THE BOSPHORUS |
IN THE SPIRIT'S WAKE
By Patricia Daunt Photographs:
Jürgen Frank | 
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At last there need be nothing between you and the Bosphorus. The launch speeding guests across the
straits from the Asian shore is heading downstream from Istanbul’s chic new waterside hotel. Patricia
Daunt tells the story of how two architects created Sumahan on the Water, breathing new life into an old
Ottoman spirit factory. Photographs by Jürgen Frank
| Visit the Sumahan on the Water's website. Also see Cornucopia special offers for discounts on the hotel's rack rates.. Patricia
Daunt's articles on the waaterside houses of the Bosphorus include The Jewel Box: the Curuksulu Yali in
Salacak on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus (No 7)) |
TURKISH COOKERY |
CHAMPIONED BY THE CAVALRY
Text and photographs by Berrin
Torolsan | 
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Sharpened like pencils so that they retain their juices (left), okra marry well with peppers of
every kind. Okra was so well established as a food in Turkey by the fifteenth century that Mehmet the
Conqueror’s formidable horsemen adopted it as an emblem for their jousting tournaments. In Europe many
still give it the cold shoulder. Berrin Torolsan comes to the rescue with five firm
favourites
- Recipes:
- Bamya Corbasi okra
soup)
- Tavuklu Bamya (chicken stew with
okra)
- Turlu (stew with mixed
vegetables)
- Kiymali Bamya (stew with okra and
sour grapes)
- Bamya Basti (okra with olive
oil)
| The complete Cornucopia cookery pages:
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