Dates and Turkish ewe’s cheese

Turkish grocers and supermarkets – there are many of them dotted around East and North-East London – offer a bountiful selection of fresh and flavoursome produce that you can never find in a normal supermarket. The vegetables are usually bursting with flavour, and you can also get some fantastic fresh breads and many dried products from all over the Balkans.

I go to the Turkish Food Centre in Dalston, near Ottolenghi in Islington, for their wonderful cheeses. There are, literally, d