Litsy

I googled Turkish lamb stew, & found hünkar beğendi (sultan's delight): lamb cooked with onions, tomatoes & peppers, served on puréed eggplant mixed with béchamel sauce (and cheese). Nice and easy. Allegedly invented for the visit of Empress Eugénie (wife of Napoléon III) to Topkapi Palace.
Stew pretty much a “basquaise“ that would have been familiar to Eugénie who spent her holidays in Biarritz! 😂

#FoodandLit #Turkey
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Texreader Yummy!! 4mo

Dilara Also finished The Caravan Moves On yesterday. It's most probably a novel masquerading as a travelogue - that's slightly disappointing because I don't know what's invention and what's true about the Yürük tribe! 4mo

Catsandbooks Tasty! 🇹🇷 4mo

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Dilara

The Caravan Moves on | Irfan Orga

“We had patlican karniyarık, young aubergines filled with meat and herbs and slices of tomato steeped in red wine; chicken pilav; green peppers stuffed with rice and wild chicory; and melons served on ice“
I could make that meal! In fact I made karniyarık a couple of weeks ago, although my recipe didn't call for steeping the tomato slices in wine.

#FoodandLit #Turkey
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Catsandbooks ❤️🇹🇷 4mo

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Dilara

The Caravan Moves on | Irfan Orga

I enjoyed Portrait of a Turkish Family enough to start another book by the same author. This one is about his stay with the Yürük nomads in the High Taurus mountains.
Paired with Turkish salep-flavoured icecream - a chance find: I was looking for Turkish coffee (they were out), and saw a glimpse of a tub of something interesting in the freezer. I'd never seen it before, although I've had salep as a hot drink before.
#FoodandLit #Turkey
@Texreader

Texreader How was the ice cream? 4mo

Dilara @Texreader It tastes nice (pretty similar to vanilla), it's very creamy but with an unusual texture - halfway between regular icecream and marshmallow. The ingredients list is shocking though: very long, very industrial 😕 Oh well! (edited) 4mo

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BC_Dittemore

Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization | Kenneth W. Harl

so-so

Hard to rate this one; it‘s not quite what I expected. More of a wide-angled view of the Eurasian Steppes and the tribes it produced, than about one single topic or figure. So dry and detailed I often wondered if I had purchased a textbook!

I imagine this would be better read than listened to, assuming there are pictures and graphics. Still, I never regret expanding my worldview, even if I‘m not 100% sure exactly where the Eurasian Steppes are.

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kaysworld1

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century | Jessica Bruder

Today is a rest and read day.
And doing the odd bit of washing kinda day.
I don't feel like being very sociable today so I'm staying in my room, 20 pages in on Nomadland it's not too bad. It's full of stories about why people choose van life some is for freedom and other's its about their financial situations.

#vanlife
#nomad
#ontheroadbooks
#travellife
#reading
#reallifestories

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Oblomov26

Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads | Richard Grant

pick

A English journalist who has lived in America most of his life and examines the role of the nomad in American tradition from Native Americans to mountain men to hobos to the modern one percenters who cannot fit into society. And he knows his subject having lived the life for years, travelling months at a time on the road in pursuit of both stories but also a great understanding of why some people must always wander. Dated but fascinating.

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