A Taste of Turkey’s Past in “A Recipe for Daphne” – Chicago Review of Books

A Taste of Turkey’s Past in “A Recipe for Daphne” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] By the time the Ottomans dissolved the Roman Empire in 1453 and took down Constantinople, the city had conceived the name Istanbul. It is now known as a city that embraces cultural diversity in the most enlightening ways despite, in Nektaria Anastasiadou’s words, “a monstrous confusion of civilization and barbarism” it has dealt with … Read more