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Title: Classical Turkish Cooking: Traditional Turkish Food for the American Kitchen by Ayla E. Algar ISBN: 0-06-093163-9 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Queen of cookbook authors - a model of how-to-write one
Comment: I agree with the other review by a non-Turk who plunges in with Algar's book. Without frightening the reader, she propels you into the kitchen on the most complicated recipes as if they are tuna casseroles.
Turkish food rocks! Subtle, delicate, based on distinct flavors of fresh ingredients, like dessert for breakfast! If you want photos (first review), find Algar's first cookbook (the one with the red cover) and there are hundreds of lovely pictures of what you are aiming for. But it is more fun to cook away and see what you bring to the table. She gives presentation hints so you won't blow it if you have Turkish friends.
The historical introduction is worth the price of the book itself. If I were on a desert island and I could have only two (oh, OK, three) cookbooks, they would be this one, anything by the Persian master Najmieh Batmanglij, and the Moroccan Couscous book by Paula Wolfert. As an American of German-French background, I am considering dropping the clunky cuisine of slabs of meat, sauces, and cooked veg altogether. Every time I put on a dinner with recipes from these books, someone else falls in love with me.
Most recommended, for a start, from Algar's book:
"Turkish Peasant Soup" Yogurty broth with barley and fresh coriander. It allowed my dear uncle to enjoy eating through the last stages of his cancer and it always calms down my household during crises (which could just be the winter blahs).
Rating: 4
Summary: Nice book in deed
Comment: It's a nice book. But there are no pictures in it and for persons that really don't know how it looks, there gone. Im a Turk myself and that doesn't really bother me. I bought this book cause I really can't cook and I don't eat anything else than turkish food. One could say that this is my attempt of learning how to cook and this book has been essensial in that area. If you want lots of turkish food in a single book then this is the book for you..
Rating: 5
Summary: A "MUST HAVE" for those who want to cook authentic Turkish
Comment: Let me just tell you how good this cookbook is.... When I met the man who would later become my husband, I wanted to impress him by preparing some food from his country. I got this book from the library (and later bought it). I had NO IDEA what Turkish food looked like, tasted like, NOTHING. Zero. I flipped through this book and asked him what he liked. He picked out some foods that he had really been missing since his move to the US. These items also happen to be about the most difficult to make--things most people in Turkey don't make at home anymore because they are easier to buy ready made...I made Baked Manti, Simit (Turkish bagels), and Asure the first night...and apparently I made them so well that the whole Turkish community in my town started showing up for our dinner parties for a taste of home. If a person who had no idea of the cuisine could make food THAT authentic on the first try, then the cookbook MUST be excellent. I have sinced moved to Turkey and after 4 years here, it is still my favorite cookbook above all the others I have.
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Title: Sultan's Kitchen: A Turkish Cookbook by Ozcan Ozan, Carl Tremblay ISBN: 962593944X Publisher: Periplus Editions Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Classic Turkish Cookery by Ghillie Basan, Jonathan Basan ISBN: 0312156170 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Art of Turkish Cooking (Hippocrene International Cookbook Classics) by Neset Eren, Nesret Eren ISBN: 0781802016 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Elementary Turkish by Lewis Thomas ISBN: 0486250644 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 April, 1986 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: A Taste of Turkish Cuisine by Nur Ilkin, Sheilah Kaufman ISBN: 0781809487 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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