"Turkish coffee? Guess again: Turkey’s national drink is tea
posted by Erika Cilengir
Try this free-association exercise: If I say “Turkey” (as in the country, not the bird), what comes to mind? For most of you, I suspect the answer is “coffee”, as in Turkish coffee, that highly concentrated, highly caffeinated brew with a molasses-like consistency. That would have been my answer too, nearly 30 years ago. But periodic trips to Turkey with my husband, who hails from the Aegean seaport city of Izmir, have taught me that when you think “Turkey”, you should think “tea”!"
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