Turgut Özal Parkı

Had a wonderful food, political and economic learning experience with Furkan. What a great guy. Putting things in perspective. The inflation rate in Turkey currently is running at between 80 and 90% annually. Yikes.

We got to try:
•Boyoz - super flaky rolls, sometimes stuffed with delicious things like spinach, with Turkish tea (çay, pronounced chai, imagine that 🤔
•Mussels stuffed with pilaf and a generous squeeze of lemon. And spicy turnip drink (label said fermented black carrot juice but there was turnip in the ingredients), kind of like a salty spicy beet juice … jury’s out on that one.
•Black mulberry juice (supposed healing properties)
•Mezes - zucchini tart, stuffed pepper, lentil boules, and so many delicious kinds of yogurt-veggie mixtures (pumpkin, walnut, and crispy chilis is 🤤🔥!!)
•Marzipans - pistachio (my fave), almond, and walnut (C’s fave)
•Turkish coffee with allll the grounds in it and milk cream (kind of like a goopier crème brûlée)

And did I mention Pickles...Read more