1 comments about Complete Book Of Turkish Cooking.

1. This is the best cookbook for Turkish food available in English. Algar is a master at walking you through to delicious dishes with encouragement along the way (so like Turks in general; kind and generous).

No comments about The Delights of Turkish Cooking.

1 comments about The Turkish Dining Experience: Recipes for Health and Happiness.

1. I have about a dozen Turkish cookbooks. I like this one best, because it is current and it has pictures of the dishes.
   
   Cooking Enthusiast in California

No comments about Binnur's Turkish Cookbook: Pastry Recipes.

No comments about Binnur's Turkish Cookbook: Olive Oil Dishes & Vegetable Recipes.

No comments about Binnur's Turkish Cookbook: Pilaf & Pasta Recipes.

3 comments about A Taste of Turkish Cuisine.

1. Nur Ilkin (native born Turkey who learned the secrets of Turkish cooking from her grandmother) and Sheilah Kauman (traveling cooking instructor, food writer, lecturer, and author of 24 cookbooks) effectively collaborate to create a memorable cornucopia of traditional ethnic recipes in A Taste Of Turkish Cuisine. From Zeytinyagli Yer Elmasi (Jerusalem Artichokes with Vegetables); Sarmisakli Cevizli Yogurt (Yogurt Spread/Dip with Garlic, Dill, and Walnuts); and Zebzeli Tavuklu Pilav (Chicken, Green Beans, and Rice with Saffron); to Etli Yaprak Dolma (Grape Leaves Stuffed with Meat and Rice); Patlicanli Pilav (Eggplant with Rice); Zeytinyagli Bakla (Fresh Fava Beans in Olive Oil); and Su Muhallebisi (Mastic Pudding in Rose Syrup), A Taste Of Turkey is an impressive and very strongly recommended addition to any personal or professional ethnic cookbook collection!



2. This book was a disappointment from start to finish. Written by a non-professional (the author is the wife of a senior Turkish diplomat as is repeatedly impressed upon the reader and furthermore needed the assistance of a co-author to get the project completed), what we have here is more a vanity publication than anything else. The recipes show a lack of feeling of genuineness and demonstrate unpleasant presumption and lack of respect both for the cuisine and for the reader. Killer example: in the explanation of terms, tahini is explained and then the suggestion made that a cup of tahini may be replaced by 2/3 cup of peanut butter mixed with 1/3 cup of oil. This revolting (and culturally and ethnically wrong) advice sets the tone for this sad excuse for a cookery book. My recommendation for the real thing: get The Sultan's Kitchen by Ozcan Ozan, a professional restaurateur.



3. This is a great cookbook. My family has lived in Turkey and can atest to the fact that the recipes are very authentic and explained very well for non-turkish readers.
   
   there are a few typos and such in it.

No comments about Secrets of the Turkish Kitchen.

No comments about Binnur's Turkish Cookbook: Soup & Salad Recipes.

1 comments about Sufi Cuisine.

1. Can you imagine a cookbook whose every chapter starts with a poem by the greatest Sufi mystic poet Rumi -- and is actually about Food? Read more on Superchefblog at http://superchefbloggered.blogspot.com/2006/02/sufi-cuisine-nevin-halici.html.