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Soul Fruit

Pomegranates, jewels of winter

by Berrin Torolsan

Long enjoyed for their succulence and their inner beauty, pomegranates have been credited with uplifting properties.

The Romans consumed pomegranates in great quantities, made wine from the fermented juice and preserved the fruit, dipped in seawater and dried in the sun, for winter.
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Palaces of Diplomacy, Part 1

The former embassies of Ottoman Istanbul have more of a consular role today but they still evoke the diplomatic rituals of their nineteenth century heyday. In the first of two articles Patricia Daunt traces the history of these spectacular winter palaces, and Fritz von der Schulenburg assembles a unique photographic record of the treasures they contain.
A Case of Regency Exoticism

In 1983 Fani-Maria Tsigakou of the Benaki Museum in Athens found five volumes of late 18th-century drawings of Ottoman Empire subjects by Thomas Hope. David Watkin assesses Hope’s orientalism and its place in the development of Regency style.
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