Stuffed Grape Leaves (Dolma): A Taste of Turkish Culture
Some dishes are meals, and some are conversations, and dolma belongs to the second kind.

Some dishes are meals, and some are conversations, and dolma belongs to the second kind.

Dolma is one of the great dishes of Turkish cuisine, and its most famous form is the stuffed grape leaf: tender leaves rolled around a seasoned rice filling, cooked slowly until the flavors melt together.

Pastries exist everywhere, and the names often cross borders: baklava appears on menus from the Balkans to Brazil, and the filled doughs of Turkey have relatives across the whole Mediterranean.

Behind every golden tray of baklava and every crisp roll of börek stands a long history of dough, fire, and migration.

Turkish pastries are everywhere, but the best of them are tied to places.

You can read a great deal about Turkey from its pastries.

Turkish pastries are a world of their own, stretching far beyond the baklava you know.

Urfa kebab has traveled far beyond Turkey, and like many travelers, it has changed on the road.

Every famous dish has a story, and Urfa kebab has the story of a whole region behind it.

Urfa kebab is eaten all over Turkey, but it is not the same everywhere, and knowing where to look makes the difference between a good meal and a memorable one.

Food is the quickest way into a culture, and in Åžanlıurfa no dish opens more doors than the kebab that bears the city’s name.

Urfa kebab is the gentler sibling in Turkey’s family of minced lamb kebabs, and for many travelers it is the more approachable one.
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