Pomegranates are widely grown throughout the Mediterranean region. Throughout the streets of Istanbul, there are huge piles of whole pomegranates at cafés and on street carts waiting to be freshly pressed into pomegranate juice or mixed into a martini. My colleague, Sarah, and I each purchased a glass of pomegranate juice from a vendor between […]
If you’ve killed a cat, you need to build a mosque to be forgiven by God. ~ Turkish Saying Similar to my experience in Athens, Greece several years ago, there are stray cats all over Istanbul. But unlike most stray cats in the US, they are very friendly and tolerated by the locals who also […]
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