"Harem Dining Lures Modern Ottomans to Istanbul's Tugra: A. Craig Copetas
By A. Craig Copetas - Jan 10, 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0200
Ottoman Empire chef Ugur Alparslan spends more time in the library than he does in the kitchen.
“These are the lost recipes,” Alparslan says as the sun sets over the Golden Horn and the tables at his Tugra restaurant in the Ciragan Palace Kempinski hotel on Istanbul’s shore begin to fill with 21st-century merchants seeking the missing tastes and aromas of imperial Ottoman Constantinople. "
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