Food and drink

A 1,500-year-old bread oven structure has been discovered during ongoing excavations in the ancient city of Perre, one of the five largest cities of the Kingdom of Commagene.

The main opposition party has called on chain markets to not raise prices and the government to issue interest-free loans to farmers in a bid to keep the food supply intact and uninterrupted before harsh winter conditions make life much more difficult to consumers.

Security forces have seized a total of 77 tons of bootleg wine at a vinegar factory in the Şarköy district of the northwestern province of Tekirdağ.

Teams from the local police force's Organized Crime and Smuggling Department figured that barrels with bootleg wine were being handled at a plant.

Rising global temperatures and the expected increase in the frequency of droughts from every 10 years to every five years pose a grave threat to food security in the world, the head of the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) Eurasia warned on Nov. 12.

Eels travel from Mexico to Turkish waters for 7,000 kilometers to reproduce.

Coming to the world in Mexico's Sargasso Bay, eels reach Bafa Lake in the southwestern province of Muğla after traveling for three years. After spending some time in the lake, they start to travel back to where they originally came from.

A Vietnamese minister has stirred controversy after a video showed him being hand-fed gold-plated steak by Turkish celebrity chef Nusret Gökçe, also known as "Salt Bae."

To Lam, Vietnamese minister of public security, stopped for a steak dinner in London after attending the United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

Nova Gorica – Gostol Gopan, a Nova Gorica-based company that makes industrial ovens and equipment for large bakeries, has announced that it shipped the largest thermal oil baking oven they have ever built. It was sold to one of Europe’s largest bakeries from Hungary. This thermal oil baking oven made by Gostol Gopan is 3 metres wide, 17 metres long and 5.3 metres high.

Ljubljana – Slovenia will produce 10-15% less wine than last year, mostly due to the Dolenjska wine region being strongly affected by the spring frost. However, wine growers around the country report it has been an above-average year in terms of quality.

Ljubljana – The November Gourmet Ljubljana culinary festival starts this week, bringing a series of events until the end of the month and presenting the very best that the Slovenian capital has to offer to foodies. The highlight of the first week will be the European Food Summit.

Muslim and Jewish communities killed animals without prior stunning