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Ismail Tosun (born 1975 in Bozcaada, Turkey) is an acclaimed Turkish Australian Celebrity chef [1] who was voted the best new talent in Australia.Tosun is the founder of Eminem, a Turkish restaurant in Nedlands which earned the title of best new talent in the country at the Australian Gourmet Traveller 2007 Restaurant Guide Awards.
The iconic Ottoman stuffed pastry börek may be related to the triangular sanbusak pastries of Safavid cuisine. The cognate term senbuse appears in Turkish sources as early as the 13th century, becoming corrupted as samsa [18] [19] (Samsa are often associated with Uzbek cuisine.). [20] [21]
Turkish cuisine (Turkish: Türk mutfağı) is largely the heritage of Ottoman cuisine (Osmanlı mutfağı), Seljuk cuisine [1] [2] and the Turkish diaspora.Turkish cuisine with traditional Turkic elements such as yogurt, ayran, kaymak, exerts and gains influences to and from Mediterranean, Balkan, Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Eastern European cuisines.
Ottoman journalist Basiretçi Ali Efendi (1838–1912) has described the Golden Horn coast and especially the meyhane around Balat in the beginning of the 1800's. [3]Author Sadri Sema (1880–1964) describes the pub culture in Istanbul in the beginning of the 1900's as follows:
After getting sufficient knowledge in Ottoman-Turkish culinary, Talip Ügümü opened his own premise with only 4-5 tables close to Column of Marcian in Fatih district at age seventeen in 1950. Named after the Ottoman Turkish word Hünkar for sovereign or sultan, the restaurant specialized in typical traditional Ottoman-Turkish cuisine. [2] [3]
The Ottoman Turkish alphabet had no distinction between k and g sounds, so it is unclear when the consonantal shift from köz to göz happened. The oldest record of the word in a Turkic language is dated back to 1477. It is first attested in Persian-Turkish dictionary Lügat-i Halîmî and also found in Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatnâme. [3]
The Ottoman coffeehouse (Ottoman Turkish: قهوهخانه, romanized: kahvehane), or Ottoman café, was a distinctive part of the culture of the Ottoman Empire. These coffeehouses , started in the mid-sixteenth century, brought together citizens across society for educational, social, and political activity as well as general information ...
Centrally located in the wall is a bronze likeness of Atatürk – a gift of the Turkish government by Turkish sculptor Hüseyin Gezer. [2] The inscription, attributed to Atatürk, pays tribute to his former foes and reflects his understanding of the cost of war: [1] Bust of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk with inscription of his words.