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All right You all! You are not only making me really homesick, but hungry as

well

Linda

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Hey Dale,

 

> Can I just say how embarrassed I am watching that stupid morning news >

program reporting from Istanbul that keeps goofing on kabobs as though

> they are the ONLY food Americans associate with any country that is a

> part of our current war on terrorism? Sheesh!! What oafs we look like.

 

Didn't see it .. but they also associate Greeks with Gyro .. which is

the Turkish Doner Kabob .. doner means .. to turn. ;-p And, if one

speaks Turkish .. they can order food in most any Greek restaurant as

the words are quite similar .. mostly from the Ottoman times.

 

> My favorite local shopping place for our kitchen staples is an import

> store called Sahadi's. Olives, honey cakes, breads, dates, a thousand

> different types of lentils, cheeses, spices. Everything is in barrels

> or refrigerated in fresh water, olives by the scoopfuls, freshly made

> tabouli/baba/hummous/etc.

 

You'd go nuts here .. its all like that. We have speciality stores too.

Like .. pickle stores .. olive stores, etc. There are a few dozens of

varieties. And pastries .. to die for. Martin Watt went crazy here and

every corner had a Pastahani .. he wanted to stop at each of them. ;-p

 

> But now I have to see if they have this Turkish delight and someone

> mentioned 'lokums' on another list...yummy hunting to me!!

 

Lokum is Turkish Delight .. Lokum is the Turkish word.

 

> Sigh

> Dale

 

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