Musa Dagdeviren, “The Turkish Cookbook”, 2019.

Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid, “Flatbreads & Flavors”, 2008 was the topic of an earlier blog post.

Here present: Musa Dagdeviren, “The Turkish Cookbook”, 2019.

SUMMARY.

Musa Dagdeviren is a chef’ and restaurateur in Istanbul (Constantinople), TURKEY.  The book consists of fifteen (15) chapters; and the “table of contents” is shown BELOW.

Constantinople (Istanbul) became the largest city in the world in 340 AD with a population of 400,000 people.  While, Tokyo JAPAN is the current largest city in the world (since 1965 with 23 million people), Constantinople, Turkey continues to be a major world city with a population of 15 million people.  

BELOW is the list of world largest cities in history.

WORLD LARGEST CITY. 

Constantinople, Turkey  340 AD  400,000 people.

Ctesiphon, Iraq 570 AD

Changan (Xi’an), China 637 AD

Baghdad, Iraq 775 AD 1.00 million people.

Cordova, Spain 935 AD

Kaifeng, China 1013 AD 400,000 people.

Constantinople, Turkey  1127 AD

Merv, Turkmenistan 1145 AD 200,000 people.

Constantinople, Turkey  1153 AD

Fez, Morocco 1170 AD

Hangzhou, China 1180 AD 255,000 people.

Cairo, Egypt 1315 AD

Hangzhou, China 1348 AD 432,000 people.

Nanking, China 1358 AD 487,000 people.

Beijing, China 1425 AD 600,000 people.

Constantinople, Turkey  1650 AD 700,000 people.

Beijing, China 1710 AD 900,000 people.

Tokyo (Edo), Japan 1787 AD 1.37 million people.

London, England  1825 AD 1.35 million people.

New York City, United States 1925 AD 7.77 million people.

Tokyo, Japan 1965 AD 23 million people.