Istanbul is Turkey’s largest city, known in antiquity as Byzantium and from the fourth century until the Turkish conquest in 1453 as Constantinople. The city was first settled around 6500 b.c.e., and

Entering the Spice Bazaar today is still a dramatic experience. With little transition from the street to the entrance, which is festooned with the gaudy displays of the newspaper- and magazine-seller

Greece and Cyprus, like other countries around the Mediterranean, have a tradition of sweets based on seasonal local ingredients. Since the dawn of civilization in Greece, ingenious cooks with limited

Turkey has been a melting pot of peoples and cultures for thousands of years, from the first farmers of the Neolithic Age to the Hittites, Lydians, and Byzantines. Turkish people from Iran and Central