I wish you the best in Norway, when we were there salads were practically unheard of and fresh greens hard to get ( maybe they were available in Oslo but I was elsewhere) , so I’m very curious about what kind of food you will find there and look forward to your posts…
But I’m very disappointed in Anya.. I’ve enjoyed several of her articles about food in Turkey in the past but why in the world would she say midye dolma are Kurdish? Have you ever looked at a map of Kurdistan? Kurds live thousands of kilometers from any seas and probably never tasted mussels until they were displaced from their homeland in the 1990s and started moving to Istanbul and other western cities en masse. I did a quick online search in Turkish about the origin of this dish, which dates back to 1585 , Ottoman times, when chefs brought from Rhodes and Crete popularized it. Today there may be Kurdish street vendors selling it from carts in Istanbul, that doesn’t make it a Kurdish dish.
And the term potluck is misleading and does not do justice to the rich meze culture.
By the way, the best food I’ve ever had was in Armenia, and I’m going back in September. I highly recommend you find a way to go there too.. I’ll be happy to send you recommendations…
I wish you the best in Norway, when we were there salads were practically unheard of and fresh greens hard to get ( maybe they were available in Oslo but I was elsewhere) , so I’m very curious about what kind of food you will find there and look forward to your posts…
But I’m very disappointed in Anya.. I’ve enjoyed several of her articles about food in Turkey in the past but why in the world would she say midye dolma are Kurdish? Have you ever looked at a map of Kurdistan? Kurds live thousands of kilometers from any seas and probably never tasted mussels until they were displaced from their homeland in the 1990s and started moving to Istanbul and other western cities en masse. I did a quick online search in Turkish about the origin of this dish, which dates back to 1585 , Ottoman times, when chefs brought from Rhodes and Crete popularized it. Today there may be Kurdish street vendors selling it from carts in Istanbul, that doesn’t make it a Kurdish dish.
And the term potluck is misleading and does not do justice to the rich meze culture.
By the way, the best food I’ve ever had was in Armenia, and I’m going back in September. I highly recommend you find a way to go there too.. I’ll be happy to send you recommendations…
But keep up the good work!