When Cornucopia started up in 1992, its aim was to venture beyond the picture postcard to capture Turkey in its infinite variety. Interiors, travel, food, wine, people and places- all these and more would find expression in fine writing and beautiful photography. This 40th issue, which recaps all the past issues, is a tribute to the talented contributors who have made this magazine what it is: a highly regarded publication with an influence that extends way beyond its small but growing band of subscribers.
Retrospective
The issue-by-issue guide
Highlights of the first 40 issues in words and pictures. People, places, travel, interiors, history, food, wine and more. From the last Caliph to Freya Stark, from Kensington to Kashgar, from fishermen's huts to sultan's palaces, from fine fast food to the perfect peach.
All this and more, including previously unpublished photographs.
The enchanted eye by Min Hogg
Over the past 39 issues, Cornucopia has delighted a widening circle of readers with a kaleidoscope of stunning images. Min Hogg, founding editor of The World of Interiors, chooses her favourites
Top: Fuchsia pink sets off indigo-washed walls in a house in the Aegean market town of Kula Cornucopia 22
Below: The mellow interior of a timber mansion in the Eastern Black Sea Mountains Cornucopia 34
At Home in Turkey The best of Turkish interiors today by Solvi dos Santos & Cornucopia's publisher, Berrin Torolsan
The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, moves from Tate Britain to the Pera Museum, Istanbul
'In the Bezestein, El Khan Khalil, Cairo'JF Lewis 1860 The artist depicts himself as a carpet-seller in this exquisite watercolour (Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery)
John Frederick Lewis photographed in Oriental costume
Constantinople and the Orientalists new edition The Pera Museum will host the symposium Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism (Nov27-28) chaired by Professor Zeynep Inankur author of thia book
The power of Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias and Roman Portrature The Yapi Kredi Vedat Nedim Tor Museum, Istanbul
Ara Guler and John Julius Norwich revisit the historic site Cornucopia 11
Byzantium 330-1453 Royal Academy of Arts London October 25 - March 22, 2009
Leading Byzantinist Rober Ousterhout assesses the exhibition.
Byzantium 330-1453 Book of the exhibition
Top: This gilded silver incense burner in the form of a domed building was made in Constantinople or Italy at the end of the 12th century. Perforations suggest its original purpose, though it was reused by the Venetians as a reliquary. On its door the figure of Intelligence points to her forehead as the source of her mental prowess.
Below: This spectacular early (6th or 7th-century) icon of Saints Sergios and Bakchos was probably sent from Constantinople to Mount Sinai. It was removed to Kiev in the 19th century.
On sale at Sotheby's, London on Nov 13th is Henry Aston Barker's 'The City of Constantinople'. Four metres wide, it is a 360-degree panorama from the Galata Tower, published in 8 sheets in 1813 Above sheets 1-3
£10/US$16 Published 2008
Regular features
Private view: Andrew Finkel pays tribute to Geoffrey Lewis and reminisces on 40 issues of Cornucopia.
Village Voices: Azize Ethem relives some of her favourite moments.
