Wow, it’s been awhile. I spent the past two weeks in Turkey – mainly Istanbul and the Cappadocia area – and was blown away by the abundance of colorful, aromatic foods and handmade textiles. I thought I would share a few of them with you.
There was the fabric…
Pashmina scarves,
cotton dyed with fruit, herbs and minerals and hand-woven wool tapestries,
fabric stores in the Grand Bazaar,
a button shop with a tiny aisle through floor to ceiling stacks of buttons and
carpets from every area of Turkey, hand-woven kilims or hand-knotted wool in every color and pattern imaginable.
Then there was the spice bazaar…
with 1000 year old shops,
mounds of spices, tea and dried fruit,
baklava,
blocks of fruity hard candy filled with pistachios, and
little cubes of Lokum, or Turkish Delight - soft, nut flecked candies flavored with rose water, strawberry, lemon or carrot and dusted with powdered sugar.
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