Tried to stay at Sarikoy, but flamed out there, so I’m staying at Ali Bilir Tesisleri up the road in Ucpinar. By the way, Sarikoy = yellow village, Ali Bilir = Ali knows, Tesisleri = facilities (rest stop when the context is right), Ucpinar = three...
A shredded wire-pastry (think Shredded Wheat cereal — I suspect there’s a more culinarily-correct word for it) surrounding a disk of cheese, saturated with diluted honey and baked until the cheese is warm and melty. Kunefe is not a quickly-delivered...
A few days before I entered Konya province some people mentioned to me that I had to try a local specialty called etli ekmek while I was there. Thin, crisped flatbread topped with ground red meat (beef or lamb, I don’t know) mixed with ground onions and mild...
