Dessert

Confectionery keeps 157-year-old Turkish delight tradition alive

Hafız Mustafa, one of Istanbul's most famous confectioneries, continues its world-famous Turkish delight tradition with its 157-year-old recipe.

The sweetshop was established in 1864 by İsmail Hakkı Bey in the Bahçekapı neighborhood of Istanbul's Fatih district, where he started to make rock candy.

Notos owner named Greece's best culinary ambassador in Belgium

Despite the fact that all the tables were occupied, silence prevailed. Next to us, a well-dressed gentleman who looked to be in his 80s was enjoying dinner alone - the entire ritual: first course, second course, not too much dessert, just a couple of bites, then a little cheese and a final sip of red wine, Greek wine. When done, he had finished off the best part of the whole bottle.

Would YOU dare to eat there?

Most people would enjoy a meal with a sweeping view, but when the dining table is set up on a transparent footpath attached to a cliff, that might be a different story.
A Chinese scenic spot has just opened a new restaurant on a vertigo-defying see-through walkway.

Would you eat a Nutella-filled kebab? (pics)

A Sydney dessert bar has introduced a saccharin equivalent of the doner kebab, complete with a rotating white and milk chocolate rotisserie, which is shaved as it spins.

Dulwich Hill’s Tella Balls Dessert Bar, which is best known for their over-the-top doughnut-topped tella ball milkshakes, is calling their new creation the “tellabab”.

Baklava, the favorite pastry for Turkish feasts

Baklava is one of the most popular sweets in Turkey, as well as in the Middle East and Balkan countries, and seduces locals and tourists alikeThe cuisine of Turkey's southeastern province of Gaziantep earned praise in December 2015, as it was added to UNESCO's list of "The Creative Cities Network" on gastronomy, a network that launched in 2004 and comprises 116 cities worldwide.

Sweet stories and sticky histories

Istanbul has been has the hub of three imperial haute cuisines, making use of not only lo-cal but imported foodstuffs ranging from caviar from the north coast of the Black Sea to spices from India. But one special import ingredient has defined its royal cuisine right from the start. Here Mary I??n explains:

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