An Aegean Odyssey by Rose Baring and Barnaby Rogerson with photographs by Faruk Akbas
Everyone moans that the coastline of the Aegean is being ruined, but it still offers a feast of sun, sea, countryside and culture. Rose Baring and Barnaby Rogerson fly out with a clutch of travel books to the southwest.
Shopping
Inside the bazaar by Amicia de Moubray with photographs by Simon Upton
Fourteen pages of amazing discoveries in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, the Artisans Bazaar and the Spice Bazaar....
The tiled entrance to Pandeli's restaurant in the Spice Bazaar
The Vizier's retreat by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Jerome Darblay and Simon Upton.
The Kibrisli Yali is one of the largest old summerhouses to survive on the Bosphorus. Its rambling architecture mirrors the fluctuating fortumes of the statesman who gave the house its name, and his colourful heirs.
Shades of green by Rose Baring with photographs by Simon Upton
Amid the olive groves of Kusadasi, a new gardening tradition is taking shape, mixing Mediterranean forms with rolling lawns
Cookery
Youth culture Cooking with yoghurt Text and photographs by Berrin Torolsan
Elixir of sovereigns, libation of the gods, secret of longevity, the timeless taste of yoghurt has the right cool, fresh tang for summer.
For a complete list of Berrin Torolsan's cookery stories in Cornucopia, see our cookery index. Selected recipes are also available online: menus.
In the Anatolian highlands nomads still collect ants eggs, using them crushed as a yoghurt culture. Shepherds in the Caucasus use a herb, while in the Taurus Mountains they curdle goat's milk with a fig branch.
Travel
Floating boaters by Patricia Daunt
The bay of Gocek in southern Turkey: an idyllic backdrop of soaring peaks and pine-scented forests for cruising by gulet.
In the wake of Herodotus by Shirley Conran
The novelist sets sail off Turkey's southern shore visiting Symi, Didyma, Milas, Heracleia on Lake Bafa, the Lycian tombs of Teimiussa, the bay of Kekova, the temple of Zeus at Euromos, Ephesus and more...
Poems of the plains The spirit of Yunus Emre by Christopher Ryan with background notes by Mary Isin
The poems of Turkey's best loved poet find their echo in the town that has adopted his name. Christopher Ryan goes to the edge of the Anatolian plateau in search of the spirit of Yunus Emre, fourteenth-century minstrel and man of the people, whose very mortal remains seem to have wandered.
The 13th-century mosque in Sivrihisar, its wooden columns lit by low-slung chandeleirs. Yunus Emre would no doubt have prayed here.
'If scholars and doctors find God in the college, while I find him in the tavern, so what?' Yunus Emre
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