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.
COMMENTS.
The Turkish national dish is “doner kebap”.
Gyro, shawarma, or doner is Mediterranean food.
By definition these are all kebab (grilled) meat. Gyro (Greek), Shawarma (Arabic) and Döner (Turkish) are all local varieties of döner.
Musa Dagdeviren is an authority on Turkish cookery; and, this cookbook of over five-hundred (500) recipes covers Turkish food. Lamb is the main dish of choice in Turkish cooking and this cookbook contains many examples.
Istanbul (Constantinople) TURKEY became the largest city in the world in 340 AD with 400,000 people. Today with a population of 15 million people Istanbul (Constantinople) TURKEY is one of the culinary centers of the world.
