If eating were solely for physical nourishment and sustenance, we would live fragmented, solitary, and joyless days because food is part of a daily landscape. Over a meal we meet at the end of the day and knit our lives back together. The food we make is soaked in feeling. It is pleasure and respite. …
In year 2015, I was working for a project called `Ecological Communities Inventory for Ormanevi Ecological Collective. In a duration of 5 months, I visited and interviewed more than 60 communities. And of course, the most interesting of the list was Sarikecili people, the people with yellow goats, the last nomad community of Anatolia. The …
When I was 28 years old, I tried to cook Noah’s pudding for the first time in my life. That is a part of our culture in Anatolia. Due to moon calendar, every year in one specific month, we call it Ashura – Noah’s Pudding- month and we cook and eat lots and lots of …