Spices

A warming trahana soup, enriched with herbs and Parmesan, is the perfect comfort food for cold winter days. For a heartier meal, serve it with smoked cured meats like syglino or apaki lightly sautéed in a pan.

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Total time: 35 minutes
Servings: 6

Ingredients

In the southern, hilly part of Chios, the dry hot summers allow the “tears” that run from the mastic trees to dry to give a unique gift of nature with a variety of properties, aromatic and medicinal, mastic. For its sake, over the centuries, wars have been fought and privileges granted, villages have been built and thousands of trees have been carved.

Two mastic manufacturers in the western province of İzmir's Çeşme district are actively promoting the cultivation of the rare mastic tree, which grows exclusively in this touristic area and on the Greek island of Chios.

Do Vegetables Contribute to Weight Gain?

This was a spontaneous question we posed to Clinical Dietitian-Nutritionist Cleopatra Aresti, who discussed both their nutritional value and the best ways to consume them to benefit from their nutrients while maintaining a healthy weight.

Here’s what she shared with us:

The commission on plants suitable for culinary use, under the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, has greenlit the incorporation of four previously untapped plants into Turkish cuisine.

The newly endorsed additions include Japanese pepper, lychee, holy basil and buckwheat sprouts.

A delicious, lemony, first-class dish for the Sunday table.

15 minutes preparation
2 hours cooking
Total time: 2 hours 15 minutes

Ingredients

(Serves 4)

The price of saffron has soared to unprecedented heights, aligning with the revered status of gold in the market.

With Safranbolu's saffron, a spice known to have several health benefits and other uses, Türkiye has become the first country in Europe to have saffron registered by the EU and the second country in the world to have spices registered by the EU.

Steven Tagle joins Thanos Davelis to look at how climate change is impacting local communities in Greece, specifically the mastic producers on the Aegean island of Chios, who have been battered by high temperatures, unseasonable rains, and past wildfires, and break down how are they innovating to better prepare and cope for the impacts of climate change.

Studying vegetables and fruits for the removal of disease-causing cell plaques, a Turkish scientist has managed to remove plaques that lead to ALS disease with celery extract.