http://thefoodblog.com.au/2012/04/article-on-gaziantep-turkey-in-thesydneymagazine.html Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:39:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://thefoodblog.com.au/2012/04/article-on-gaziantep-turkey-in-thesydneymagazine.html/comment-page-1#comment-4590 Travel Tales: Fouad Kassab : She Goes Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:36:16 +0000 http://thefoodblog.com.au/?p=1569#comment-4590 [...] Best meal you’ve ever had while travelling?: We ran out of water once while hiking in NSW and were severely dehydrated. We kept going by sharing a boiled cup of a moss-green brew we coerced out of a stagnant puddle. During the night it rained. We woke up the next morning and the water had gathered on the sides of our tent. We regressed to a primal state, drinking off the ground while on all fours. Nothing has ever tasted sweeter than that rainwater. But I guess that isn’t really a meal, is it? On my most recent trip to Turkey, we ended up in Gaziantep, a city in southeastern Anatolia, where we had brilliant pistachio kebabs with smoked eggplants, yoghurt and burnt butter, followed by a dessert of charcoal-baked burmali kadayif (kataifi pastry wrapped around pistachios) – that’s been the most memorable so far. I wrote a story about that for the(sydney)magazine recently. Here’s a link. [...] [...] Best meal you’ve ever had while travelling?: We ran out of water once while hiking in NSW and were severely dehydrated. We kept going by sharing a boiled cup of a moss-green brew we coerced out of a stagnant puddle. During the night it rained. We woke up the next morning and the water had gathered on the sides of our tent. We regressed to a primal state, drinking off the ground while on all fours. Nothing has ever tasted sweeter than that rainwater. But I guess that isn’t really a meal, is it? On my most recent trip to Turkey, we ended up in Gaziantep, a city in southeastern Anatolia, where we had brilliant pistachio kebabs with smoked eggplants, yoghurt and burnt butter, followed by a dessert of charcoal-baked burmali kadayif (kataifi pastry wrapped around pistachios) – that’s been the most memorable so far. I wrote a story about that for the(sydney)magazine recently. Here’s a link. [...]

]]> http://thefoodblog.com.au/2012/04/article-on-gaziantep-turkey-in-thesydneymagazine.html/comment-page-1#comment-4526 Meera Freeman Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:32:28 +0000 http://thefoodblog.com.au/?p=1569#comment-4526 Loved this evocative story Fouad! Wish I had been there with you. Loved this evocative story Fouad! Wish I had been there with you.

]]> http://thefoodblog.com.au/2012/04/article-on-gaziantep-turkey-in-thesydneymagazine.html/comment-page-1#comment-4265 Viviane@Taste-Buds Sun, 29 Apr 2012 05:29:52 +0000 http://thefoodblog.com.au/?p=1569#comment-4265 The article brings out your storytelling technique, although I am not a fan of liver and loins, I certainly am interested in trying the desserts! The article brings out your storytelling technique, although I am not a fan of liver and loins, I certainly am interested in trying the desserts!
Viviane@Taste-Buds´s last [type] ..Potluck Fatayer

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