Saturday, June 06, 2009

Dining with a view in Istanbul

"Dining with a view in Istanbul

By Nicholas Lander

Published: June 6 2009 01:20 | Last updated: June 6 2009 01:20

Standing outside her restaurant just behind the Marmara Pera hotel in Istanbul, Ece Aksoy acknowledges the enormous debt she and her colleagues owe to this city’s rich and complex history. “Ottoman cooking was the first real fusion cooking,” she says. "

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