Cacik/Tzatziki/Raita

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Canon of Vegetables

By Raymond Sokolov

Published 2007

  • About

In 1943, M.F.K. Fisher published The Gastronomical Me, a foodie’s biography that tried as hard as it could to pretend the author wasn’t a food snob. This trio of recipes for cucumber mixed with yogurt could be subtitled The Multicultural Me, because it shows off the same basic recipe as interpreted by Turks, Greeks, and Indians.

Cacik (pronounced jajik, really jajök, because th