Pastasciutta con Melanzane

Pasta with eggplant

Eggplants are one of the many common points between my home country Turkey and my chosen love-affair Italy. In Turkey we say there are 100 dishes involving eggplants (Would it suffice as proof if I start counting with eggplant jam which adorns many breakfast tables across southeast Anatolia?), and Italian cuisine, oops, I [...]

Menu For Hope III

You know food means a lot of things. It means comfort. It means indulgence. Beauty. Memories. Delight. Adventure. Home. Friends. Rituals.
If you are here, you wonder what it means to others, as well. Maybe you also wonder how and what the locals really eat at home in a town you’re visiting? You have heard of [...]