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A Turkish breakfast classic that transforms simple vegetables and eggs into something aromatic and deeply satisfying. Gentle heat and fresh herbs make this one-pan dish shine.
Sep 25, 2024
Pistachio against walnut, sugar syrup against honey, semolina in the layers or not. The differences are real and worth knowing. The ownership question is less answerable than either side would like.
Aug 14, 2026
Whole aubergines split, stuffed with slow-cooked onion, garlic and tomato, and braised in olive oil until collapsing. Served at room temperature, entirely vegan, and one of the great dishes of the Ottoman kitchen. The legend, the method, and the oil.
Sep 6, 2026
Thick, warm, milky and scented with rose or orange blossom, topped with cinnamon and pistachio. The real thickener is the ground tuber of a wild orchid, now scarce and protected; cornflour does the job and nobody in the café will know.
Dec 16, 2025
The name is a loanword from Turkish, the technique is a nineteenth century invention, and the man usually credited with it was a butcher in Bursa who turned the spit on its end. Here is where shawarma actually comes from.
Aug 21, 2026
Turkish archaeologists say a wooden cargo ship lying about 30 metres down near Kekova Island sank 4,400 to 4,700 years ago. Its hull is gone, but the jars it carried remain.
Oct 15, 2026
Three of those words literally mean turning. The fourth means shepherd, and it exists because a hundred thousand Lebanese migrants arrived in Mexico and their children swapped the lamb for pork and added pineapple.
Aug 21, 2026
Israel's prime minister addressed a half-empty hall on Thursday, attacked New York's mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan by name, and thanked Donald Trump for joining the strikes on Iran.
Sep 26, 2026
Turn it over. The back of a carpet tells you what the front is trying to sell: whether it was knotted or tufted, how dense the work is, whether the colours went through the pile or were painted on.
Jul 4, 2023
The FILOJET was carrying 259 passengers and eight crew to Tasucu. Eight people died, 18 are still missing and 241 were brought ashore. The captain and all seven of his crew have been detained and remanded while an investigation begins.
Aug 31, 2026
Shish tawook is Lebanese grilled chicken marinated in yogurt, lemon and garlic. The yogurt is what makes it tender, the marinade time is what most people get wrong, and there is a hard upper limit.
Nov 20, 2024
Roasted red peppers, toasted walnuts, pomegranate molasses and a chilli paste that is smoky rather than hot. The trick is a coarse texture and restraint with the oil.
Jun 14, 2023
The group named Ras Tanura, Abqaiq and two airports, while Saudi forces reported only interceptions, one minor injury and, on Friday, a drone destroyed over the Makkah region.
Oct 30, 2026
No special equipment, no two-day marinades, no ingredients you have to travel for. Ten dishes that are genuinely quick, ordered by how little you have to do.
Aug 14, 2026
Allies will add maritime patrol aircraft, radar and counter-drone teams after ships were hit off Romania and Bulgaria, though nobody in the alliance has named Russia as the attacker.
Oct 21, 2026
Layered filo, clarified butter, crushed nuts and syrup. It is not a difficult dessert, it is a patient one, and the single thing that decides crisp or soggy happens in the last thirty seconds.
Aug 13, 2026
Knafeh, baklava, luqaimat, basbousa. Nearly all of them are pastry plus sugar syrup, and there is one rule about temperature that decides whether yours is crisp or soggy.
Aug 14, 2026
Soft, barely set eggs folded into tomatoes cooked down to a light sauce. It is the weeknight dish in countless Chinese homes, cheap, quick and good over rice, and the argument is only over sugar.
Sep 23, 2026
Chicken broth, rice, eggs and lemon, brought together into something silky without a drop of cream. The whole dish turns on tempering the eggs so they thicken rather than scramble, and once learned that skill goes everywhere.
Sep 6, 2026
The cold soup of southern Spain is an emulsion, not a blended salad. The bread and oil give it body, the sherry vinegar gives it its edge, and the tomatoes have to be the best of the year. A recipe for the heat, and the two cousins worth knowing.
Sep 6, 2026
Die Linke took 25.7 per cent in the capital and Elif Eralp may become its first mayor from a migrant family. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania the AfD took 38.2, the SPD 35.5, and Merz's party 4.9 and no seats. He called it a disaster and is staying.
Sep 22, 2026
Thomas Keller's refined ratatouille: precision-sliced vegetables arranged accordion-style and baked slowly until they confit together in perfect harmony.
Apr 15, 2025
Ground sesame, nothing else. Whether it is hulled or unhulled changes the taste completely, the bitterness people complain about is usually a sign of the cheap kind, and the trick that stops it seizing is counterintuitive.
Aug 21, 2026
Both are marinated chicken, both arrive in flatbread with garlic sauce, and they are made by completely different methods. The difference is the heat, and it changes everything.
Aug 14, 2026
The Premier League, La Liga and Serie A close on 1 September. The Saudi Pro League stays open until 12 October. Those six weeks are the most important structural fact in this transfer market.
Aug 17, 2026
One viral chocolate bar turned pistachios into the food world's hottest commodity, and the ripple effects have reached lattes, croissants, and ice cream.
May 14, 2025
Israel's strikes on Iran and the retaliation that followed grounded Gulf carriers and shut down entire national airspaces within hours.
Jun 26, 2025
The Spanish potato omelette is the national dish every household makes differently and makes well. The potatoes are poached in oil rather than fried, the onion is a matter of civil dispute, and the centre should be just set. Step by step.
Sep 6, 2026
Tunisia has the strongest claim, the name means roughly a mixture, and no version of the dish can be older than the sixteenth century. The argument about who owns it is really about something else.
Aug 14, 2026
Roast chicken over onions cooked in an amount of olive oil that feels wrong until you taste it, with sumac doing the work salt cannot. A dish built around the olive harvest.
Jul 29, 2026
Two parts sugar, one part water, a squeeze of lemon and a restrained hand with the blossom water. Get this right and most Middle Eastern desserts stop being difficult.
Aug 14, 2026
A soft, oil-enriched bread dough that stays tender under a hot oven. The hydration and the resting matter more than the recipe, and both are where home versions go wrong.
Aug 13, 2026
A home cooking experiment in a Dubai kitchen turned into a global chocolate craze, a pistachio shortage, and a wave of copycats chasing the same viral bite.
Sep 10, 2025
Most filo is already vegan. Swap clarified butter for a blend of coconut oil and olive oil, use sugar syrup instead of honey, and the result is genuinely crisp rather than merely acceptable.
Aug 14, 2026
