Issue 40 Highlights

Cornucopia - a celebration

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.

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All this and more, including previously unpublished photographs


Retrospective 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 Rural architecture of the Eastern Black Sea Region

Exhibitions Enthralled by the East 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. See Cornucopia 45 thewatercolours of JF Lewis Constantinople and the Orientalists new edition
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.				The Art of the Kariye Camii by Robert Ousterhout Related features in Cornucopia: Hagia Sophia Cornucopia 1 Cappadocian churches Cornucopia 11 Churches of the Black Sea Cornucopia 12 Mount Athos Cornucopia 15 Byzantine traces on the Lycian coast Cornucopia 23 The Zeyrek Camii Cornucopia 36 More related books: A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia Byzantine Monuments of the Evros/Meric Valley Flavours of Byzantium Byzatine Encylocpedia of Horse Medicine The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinoplene Master Builders of Byzantium


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. Restaurants: Highs and lows over 15 years.