Ripe Figs - Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus
Ripe Figs - Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus For thousands of years, the eastern Mediterranean has stood as a meeting point between East and West, bringing cultures and cuisines…
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Ripe Figs - Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus
For thousands of years, the eastern Mediterranean has stood as a meeting point between East and West, bringing cultures and cuisines through trade, commerce, and migration. Khan includes healthy, seasonal, vegetable-focused recipes, such as hot yogurt soups, zucchini and feta fritters, pomegranate and sumac chicken, and candied pumpkin with tahini and date syrup.Fully accessible for the home cook, with stunning food and location photography, Ripe Figs Traveling by boat and land, Yasmin Khan traces the ingredients that have spread through the region from the time of Ottoman rule to the influence of recent refugee communities.At the kitchen table, she explores what borders, identity, and migration mean in an interconnected world, and her recipes unite around thickets of dill and bunches of oregano, zesty citrus and sweet dates, thick tahini and soothing cardamom.