Welcome to the Summer issue of tasteAnatolia. Let’s begin with a spot-the-difference quiz for regular readers… Have a quick look through the magazine.
Do you notice anything different? The answer is that, by popular request, we have started using Turkish accents where appropriate. We all feel it’s a great improvement but please indulge us if a few accents have gone astray – a magazine is always work in progress.
On the subject of regular readers I am proud to report that we now have subscribers in 26 different countries. The majority come from the UK; we have readers in Turkey and most of Europe, and also the US, Japan, Oz and South Africa. Our band of followers is still small but it is definitely growing.
There’s plenty of good reading in this summer issue – Jeremy Seal on the Lycian Way, Pat Yale on Bodrum, Andrew Catchpole on fine new wines. To encourage longer reads for people interested in Turkey Caroline Finkel has selected some of her favourite books – seriously good stuff to enjoy at leisure. Modesty prevented Caroline from mentioning Osman’s Dream, her great story of the Ottoman Empire but I suggest you add it to your reading list.
Angie Mitchell’s feature on yoghurt and the opening picture (page 38) took me right back to my (distant) Paris childhood and to little glass pots of lovely wobbly gently sour yogurt. The jars were returnable and taking them back to the grocer’s helped stretch pocket money. The brand was Danone. Unbeknownst to me at the time it had a strong connection with Turkey. People who feel Turkish yoghurt (perhaps like some other good things from Turkey) isn’t as well known as it should be may take heart from the fact that Danone was named after Daniel Carasso, son of Isaac Carasso, born in Ottoman Selanik (modern Thessaloniki). A doctor interested in sour milk as a health food, Isaac moved his family to Barcelona during the Balkan wars when the Greek troops approached. He initially sold yoghurt in pharmacies as a medicine before starting a yoghurt business. Daniel went on to making the company named after him an international household name.
I shall end my little history lesson and hope you enjoy your magazine. Please contact us at www.tasteanatolia.com and tell potential friends of Turkey about us. Look our for the September/October issue of tasteAnatolia: it will be a very special celebration of the first anniversary of our magazine.
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